Word: sentimentale
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What is most rewarding and least nine-teenish about A Taste of Honey is its un-histrionic realism, which blinks at nothing but can be wry as well as harsh, can use sunlight to make soot the more visible, and can blend a knack for theater with a sense of...
Having run through every faded actress still able to cry on cue. Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life, probably the most sickeningly sentimental show on the air, lately turned to ordinary people as subjects for its weekly, treacly "true-to-life" biographies. During the Mother's Day season...
For the longest papal junket (more than 100 miles round trip) since Pius IX's horsecarriage tour of the Roman countryside in 1857, Pope John XXIII, 79, climbed into the armchair seat of his Chrysler, donated by U.S. Catholics, at 6:15 a.m. one morning last week. The purpose...
Percussive Vaudeville (Harry Breuer and Orchestra; Audio Fidelity). A sentimental treatment of Gay Nineties songs is mixed with Spike Jonesian horn and whistle exclamations. The "separation of sound" here is greater than that between the far ends of a vaudeville pit. and the effect, while startling, ultimately cancels out the...
"It is not a comfortable thing for a man who works in safety to pass judgment on another man caught up far from home in an alien, so-called 'court' for a 'criminal mission' on which his superiors had sent him,'' wrote White. "The...