Word: sentimentale
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From a ridge on Mount Holyoke--the mountain, not the college--Tracy Kidder looks down at Northampton, Mass., near where he lives. He has just written an impressionistic portrait of this old New England community, Home Town (Random House; 349 pages; $25.95). From his perch, he dreams up a lofty...
Ellington knew how to mold a memorable melodic theme--check out a rendition of his In a Sentimental Mood (the version on the 1962 album Duke Ellington & John Coltrane is particularly enchanting). But Ellington was determined to do more than just write beautiful melodies. He strove to create long, complex...
As you could imagine, this is not done with-out a certain degree of dopiness. As their mellifluous voices blend in a final chord, there is--surprise, surprise--not a dry eye left in the concert hall. The audience is, in fact, so overcome by sentimental ecstasies that there is...
The result is an industry in flux. Although condolences are hardly in order--last year the industry sold $7.5 billion in cards--sales are flattening and earnings are lackluster despite a robust economy. The industry enjoyed double-digit growth from the late '70s through the '80s. Wall Street, about as...
Religion is not new to the funny papers: Charles Schulz addresses it in Peanuts, although he notes, "I've avoided preaching, because I am a reasonable Midwestern student of the Bible." Bil Keane's The Family Circus portrays church and even heaven, but in a sentimental, child's-eye mode...