Word: sentimentale
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¶VICE PRESIDENT NIXON, who was once a fair fiddler (he played in the Fullerton, Calif. High School orchestra) but now prefers to relax by playing the piano, picked Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. His true favorites, he added, are sentimental ones: the score from Oklahoma! (because it was the...
James Francis ("Ginger") Coffey has discovered the secret of eternal boyhood. He never faces facts. Born in Dublin "in humble circs" but now a status-seeking New Canadian immigrant, Ginger daily imagines his ship will come in even while he founders at some bar. With a flaming red mustache and...
The New Life. In 6½ fast years he has raised that figure to $7,500 a week (the hungry i still gets him for a sentimental $5,000). Hollywood has put him in two films (All the Young Men opens this month) on a contract under which he writes...
The Bridge is briskly told with an interlacing of flashbacks. Since the major characters are 16-year-olds, these flashbacks are mercifully short, if overly sentimental; the boys seem to have grown up surrounded by sweet, long-suffering mothers and avuncular lieutenants, with hardly a Nazi in sight. But these...
Said Theologian Franzmann: "A compromise prayer, in which Moslem, Hindu and pious agnostic may join, is always and everywhere an abomination on the lips of a Christian ... A prayer which is the product of a blind, sentimental enthusiasm and therefore conceals or smoothes over differences in themselves divisive is indefensible...