Word: sentimentale
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The refrains of most of our "socalled" gospel hymns are filled with needless repetition. As Dr. Wiant says, they "dupe" and "dope" us and are "sentimental and good for nothing." The type of tune found in many of these hymns is used outside the church for dancing and for popular...
Yachtsman Cornelius Shields, "the grey fox of Long Island Sound"). Both Suzy and Shields had slipped out of Paris-quietly, deftly, on the sunny side of discreet. "Suzy is just taking a vacation," said her French husband, who has been seeing her now and then. "Ah oui," said the gossips...
After the Fact. Having made his defense, Moore confesses that the finished piece under discussion displeases him. "It is simply too anecdotal, too sentimental," he says, and moves in the studio to a nearby figure, a more distorted yet far more powerful version of the same theme (see second color...
The "more" here than meets the eye may sometimes verge on the sentimental. But no combat soldier will think for a moment that this quota of sentimentality is unusual. It was often a saving grace, and so Mydans uses it. He can remember the day when, boarding the U.S.S. Enterprise...
Bellwether of the opposition to gospel hymns is the Rev. Bliss Wiant, 64, for 28 years a missionary in China (where he was on the faculty of Yenching University in Peking), and now director of music for the Methodist Church. In his Nashville (Tenn.) office last week, he stated his...