Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To a world-weary outsider, these sentimental lines would scarcely seem to fit the barren, rocky acres of Star Island, one of the nine Isles of Shoals off New Hampshire's brief coast. But to the religiously liberal Unitarian Fellowship, these and the other two stanzas of the song...
Said he last week: there are two ways of approaching a religious play. "Some say it should 'do good' to the audience, and I think most emphatically that that produces the worst kind of nauseatingly sentimental play. People hate to feel that they are having good done to...
Pierre Bonnard's latter-day success is galling to some Parisian moderns, who think he is an old fogy. He has never followed the fads of Parisian painting, never gone surrealist or cubist, never painted a face with one eye or three. Many of Bonnard's pictures fall...
In Geisha houses, brightly kimonoed girls plucked their banjo-like samisen and trilled sentimental Japanese favorites like the Rain Blues, the Song of Beauty, the Innocence Duet. When a boisterous American asked for the Japanese national anthem, the girls refused but obliged with You Are My Sunshine. Toshiko Yamaguchi, once...
Ilya Ehrenburg, back in Russia after a ten-week journalistic junket through the U.S. and Canada, gave Izvestia readers an outsize report on America and Americans. Highlights: "Everything . . . is different - cities, trees and customs. . . . I have been to dinners and meetings. First every body hurriedly chews chicken, then orators make...