Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At first,, no one quite believed Yankee Boss Larry MacPhail when he said he was through (TIME, Oct. 13). Not that MacPhail, tearful and waving an empty beer bottle, had not made it plain: "That's it, goddamit, that's my retirement," he roared in the first moment...
And not for sentimental folk
The Harvard Union is not a delightful place. To a Freshman who has waited half an hour for a meal, it is considerably less than delightful. He will finish his dessert in a hurry, and leave, no matter whether there is a meeting of the debating club at the Union...
Command Decision is hard-hitting theater, full of mailed conflict and scrappy talk. What it hits hardest, however, is all sentimental attitudes toward war, all evasions of how damnable it can be, all attempts to break it up neatly into so many parts hell and so many parts humanitarianism. But...
One sentimental O'Brien column, written the day his son Donel went off to war -and death-told a universal story. It was reprinted in Reader's Digest, read on the radio and at Rotary Clubs.