Word: sentimentale
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Mirsky's story, a humorous parody of the recent space of identity crisis fiction, unfortunately is marred by most of the major flaws of recent American Jewish fiction--not to mention a few offenses that are uniquely Mirsky's. "Lukshin Kugel" is sloppily sentimental, affecting an uncritical nostalgia for the...
When Miss Kegan warns Jewish students against their tendency to appropriate only the mystical, irrational, and sentimental aspects of Hasidism without integral belief, it seems to me that her criticism is more relevant to Mirsky's story than to the general Jewish college population. In addition to Miss Kegan's...
Annette Robinson reviews The Trial Begins, a novel of Russia's New Class by Abram Tertz that was smuggled out of the Soviet Union early last year. Perhaps because the subject is non-Jewish, Miss Robinson's writing is restrained and modest, avoiding the self-indulgent, sentimental egotism of some...
A Story to Tell. Though he met Russell only casually and Remington never. Carter must have felt that he knew them both well. Tough and sentimental, fiercely individualistic yet hungrily gregarious, they shared Carter's red-blooded view of life. They painted and sculpted men-red men, white men...
Perhaps the most impressive about the rally was its magni Radical-conservative leaders, ially William F. Buckley, Jr. National Review, have long top priority to recruiting stu. Yet in the past, rallies for purpose have been less than phant. They usually attracted d 500 people -- mostly grim old ladies. The...