Word: sentimentale
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Novelist Ishlon tells her story in a two-part stream of consciousness, first through the oversimplified mind of the girl in a kind of Schreckengost-written prose, then through the hypomanic mind of the A. & R. man, who has abandoned serious composing and now sees himself as "a latter-day...
Conspiracy of Hearts (Rank; Paramount), an Easter hare from Britain that should have a grand run on the big U.S. circuits, is one of those mercifully rare, inexcusably entertaining sentimental melodramas that leave the customers wondering whether to scream, sob, sniffle, snicker, groan or have a heart attack. In this...
Castles to Indians. How did U.S. fiction get deflected onto this strange and sometimes morbidly haunted path? Like the good psychological determinist he is, Author Fiedler feels that it all began in the womb of English letters some two centuries ago. Pioneering American novelists had two English models-the sentimental...
The decline of the sentimental love nov el is a sizable calamity in Fiedler's eyes. In Continental terms, the aristocratic Lovelace's siege of Clarissa's stoutly preserved virginity was a class struggle of courtly manners v. the rising middle class. Transferred to the democratic U.S...
Good drawing has declined tremendously in recent years, because if anyone draws well he is attacked as being sentimental or anecdotal. The result is that many teachers cannot draw well and neither can their pupils. Therefore they are doomed to create what I call geometrical or biological abstractions-Scotch plaid...