Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hooray to Frank Trippett for his Essay, "New Sentimental Journey" [Jan. 30]. Fortunately, he has merely predicated what we romanticists have always (albeit secretly) predicted-that the pendulum would inevitably swing back, in our favor!
If saccharine love songs, soap operas, tea dances and simple-minded optimism mean a return to romanticism, then give me the harsh realism of my "generation of nightmares." The "self-indulgence" of those who gave their time, money and sometimes lives to the antiwar and civil rights movements helped make...
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author: "There's something infamous about the tango. How can I put it? Something brutal and at the same time sentimental. Like Wagner."
America's new sentimental journey, believes Psychologist Gordon, may spring from the active efforts of many Americans to find something better than "the depersonalization of sex and relationships" that has occurred in recent years. Others think that, in some mysterious way, it is related to a conservative trend in...
It is easy to challenge the description of the current mood as a return to romance, if only because America's essentially romantic character has never really been in abeyance. Even in a basically romantic country, however, romanticism has its highs and its lows, and right now it is...