Word: sentimentale
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In tryout towns from San Francisco to Boston, new shows were primping, polishing and rehearsing last week for Broadway. Whatever their merits, none seemed more certain to turn into a hot ticket than the new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. A sentimental evening with the famous Trapp...
Friday night's short but challenging program featured Landon Young as soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. His performance gave a continual impression of control and breadth, of getting far above the notes and phrases to achieve a coherent interpretation of each movement. There was...
Crocodile Tears. First published as a book in 1938, and the first of Nabokov's Russian-language novels to be translated into English (by his 25-year-old son Dmitri), Invitation to a Beheading will offer innumerable meanings to readers-or no meaning at all. But the 20th century...
Nabokov's ultimate and realistic irony is to make the executioner, who is at first passed off as just another fellow prisoner, into a garrulous, sentimental clown. As the axman prattles on about being not some "unfamiliar terrible somebody, but a tender friend," Author Nabokov develops the memorable conceit...
Mr. Williams practices on the emotions of his audience with consummate skill, successfully using various theatrical devices to intensify the atmosphere. "The play is memory," says Tom Wingfield, who functions as narrator. "Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic. In memory everything...