Word: sentimentale
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Green Mansions. The South American rain forest of William Henry Hudson's sentimental classic has been sprayed with dime-store perfume. But Audrey Hepburn is spritely enough as a child of nature. The boy is Tony Perkins.
Stories like this keep raising the perennial Cambridge question, "Are girls smarter?" Few Harvard students will admit the superiority of their black-stockinged counterparts. If the Cliffies do happen to take home higher grades, such happenings are easily explained away by apple-polishing or by sentimental tales of Mathla, where...
Thomas Whitbread publishes seven of his poems, poems that give a tolerant and patient look at life and nature, a look simply and often beautifully expressed. Whitbread's work has a raffish, sentimental quality about it; the poetry dotes on objects familiar to everyone, and a reader is not ashamed...
Wiechert uses modern characters to illustrate his old allegory and presses home his message with intense sincerity. His weakness is a mystified view of history that exaggerates both the stability of the past and the uniqueness of the present. His prose is filled with sentimental, turgid solemnity. But the book...
Sentimental Legend. Some of this involves the novel in dense thickets of Marxist homiletics. But two things in Wolfe's fictional chronicle are intriguing in human terms. One is the sense of Trotsky-Rostov's real devotion to his wife. The other is his personal gentleness and charm...