Word: sentimentale
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At one point Lewis notes that "the most effective tools of the anthropologist are sympathy and compassion for the people he studies." Indeed, it was a mean feat to establish a rapport strong enough to permit the frankness and depth of the interviews. At the same time, he claimed that...
Competent Genius. The Human Predicament seems an overly ambitious undertaking for a man who has only two novels, and a collection of children's stories to his credit in 61 years. But Hughes shares the confidence in his genius that has been expressed by eminent men (T. E. Lawrence...
Died. Konrad Bercovici, 79, jack of all literary trades and 1920s bestseller, a gentle giant with a Stalinesque mustache who successively won fame as a foreign correspondent, novelist (Savage Prodigal) and film writer (The Volga Boatman) but put the best of his talent into Ghitza and The Story of the...
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER. The best Russian movie since World War II: Director Grigori Chukhrai's tender, sentimental, humorous, passionate, imaginative story of love without benefit of Lenin in a Russia without time for love.
Being family men themselves, U.S. retailers yield to no one in their appreciation of Christmas tradition. But like the caterer at a banquet, they must keep a steady head and a calculating eye. To them, Christmas, whatever its sentimental and religious significance, is also the most important financial event of...