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If you like to see cranes knocking down buildings, you can do so almost anywhere across the river. (Admittedly, you can see the same thing at the site of the new Harvard Health Center, but unless you are sentimental about what Cronin's used to be, you are unlikely to...

Author: By Rober W. Gordon, | Title: Boston: Unchanging Evil Spinster | 7/5/1960 | See Source »

Mush Note. In Springfield, 111., after handing the police chief a bunch of forget-me-nots and noting that he tends to get sentimental when he has had too much to drink, Alfonso Senor admitted that it was his fourth sentimental occasion with in a week, got six months at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

Berlin Accent. The Apartment has its moments of sentimentality, even soap opera, when the heroine tries suicide for love of a married man. It has moments of sharp, watercooler burlesque as it glances at an office Christmas party. But beyond that, unfolding the story of a nice little guy whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Policeman, Midwife, Bastard | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

All this is known by those who keep, and are fit to keep cats, but the knowledge has seldom been applied as a policy toward the greatest of cats-the lion. This book was written to prove that the principle-don't hurt cats and they won't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

Many of the other stories point the same moral, and yet Author Sillitoe is almost never bitter, self-pitying or sentimental. Most of his people are buoyed by a bottomless optimism. As Smith puts it, talking about the warden: "It's dead blokes like him as have the whiphand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notes from the Underground | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

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