Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"A Sprawling Collection." London's Economist asked some uneasy questions: "To be quite specific, do the Dominion Governments, now that there are seven of them, get all the secret telegrams that they used to get when there were only four? And if not, is something real being sacrificed for...
As the patient talks, the psychoanalyst listens for evidence of "unconscious wishes." of "suppressed desires," of hidden motives. He watches for these signs in accounts of dreams, in words, in reported actions, in sudden hesitations and slips of the tongue, in strange lapses of memory. As the talks go on...
... As regards Dr. Perl's [being] "sentimental and well-meaning," and Dr. Deutschman's condemnation of her "wholesale slaughter of infants," I cannot but wonder about Dr. Deutschman's pretentiousness in passing judgment on the doctor's morals . . . Presumably, it would have been a happier choice...
Freedom & Fog Ghosts. Windom is sentimental, liberal, vague in his speech, tremendously learned in American history. He has lived through the administrations of 14 Presidents, and has shaken hands with nine of them. He holds long, philosophic-poetic conversations with his granddaughter-in-law-his grandson is a flyer-in...
One trouble with The Young Lions is that, though Shaw has planned a large narrative structure, his novel often crumbles into unintegrated sketches. Many of these are good, especially at suggesting the drab atmospheres of Army camps, but many others become preachy and dreadfully sentimental. What is worst about his...