Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The play has almost no plot, hence almost no suspense; it is largely a sentimental picture of mixed-up people in a strange land. What little emotion it arouses is one of pity for the refugees' plight rather than of indignation for what caused it. This is to write...
But if Night Music, with its lightly humorous and sentimental tour of Manhattan, spells danger for the stabbing, rebellious talent that made history on Broadway, it reveals, all the same, that the talent still exists. No two plays in one season could superficially have more in common than Odets'...
The Lancet is an excellent weekly medical journal; but it is British. Its lucid medical articles delight U. S. medicos; its self-consciously lighter vein also delights them. Every week since the war began the Lancet has devoted a pasture-page to "our peripatetic correspondents," for gripes, wisecracks, sentimental reflections...
Twenty years ago the name Yale stood for a famed Fence and a sentimental tradition, for a stubborn football team and a good undergraduate college, for Billy Phelps and a group of elms. It stood only by courtesy for a university. Its graduate and professional schools were second-rate. But...
"They know we sympathize with them . . . and they are grateful about this and also very mad and bewildered by it as well. We are buying them medical supplies, food and clothing. . . . Now it just happens that there is plenty of food in Finland and enough warm clothes and an ample...