Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"I bring to nervous therapeutics a new power-the poetic fluid," Madame Guillet announced. Her science is based on Berillon's theory of cerebral balance. This theory contends that, in the perfectly adjusted human, the right half of the brain, containing will power and reason, exactly balances the left...
The holes in all this need not be pointed out, Burnham, who numbers an interest in the Machiavellians among his fads, in no mean "realist" himself, flluging "sentimental" and "irrelevant" at all reasoning but his own. On his own terms, then, by passing all the powerful "unrealistic" arguments with his...
The other half, namely the story, is distinguished mainly by the good taste of its omissions from the film-musical-biography formula. There is, for instance, no prophetic publisher, music teacher, wife, mother, or Monty Wooley to rasp "millions will thrill to your voice some day, Al." Instead, the gradual...
Snorted the New York Times's critic Olin Downes: "This is a Hollywood concerto. . . . The melodies are ordinary and sentimental in character; the facility of the writing is matched by the mediocrity of the ideas." Quipped the New York Sun's Irving Kolodin: "More corn than gold."
No U.S. writer has ever gone so far with so little talent as Indiana-born Theodore Dreiser. His famous novels (Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy) laid bare the seamy side of life with a bumbling crudity and literary formlessness that often alienated critics and readers alike. But he had the...