Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Time has not appreciably weakened the old spellbinder's grip. Man and Superman is 74 years old; yet playgoers at Canada's Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., are sitting through a 5½hour uncut version of the drama with evident delight. In part, this...
The President, our author continued, described himself as "an idealist, with the heart of a poet." He wrote of his love of wife, family or friends with an un ashamed sentimental fervor that embarrassed some and amused others. Sometimes, the historian wrote, the President substituted a beguiling jargon for a...
Bloomsday Election. Some sentimental Irishmen were pleased that, whether deliberately or not, Cosgrave chose the anniversary of Bloomsday for the election: June 16, 1904, was the date on which the events in James Joyce's Ulysses took place. The fact that Fianna Fáil-the party of Eamon...
Douglas reasons thus: the stern, rigorous theology of the Puritan fathers was eventually weakened by the less demanding beliefs of such sects as Congregationalism and Unitarianism. Women, once full working partners in clearing and planting the New World, were turned by industrialization and commerce into homemakers and clotheshorses. Shunted to...
To support this bold brief, Douglas, who teaches at Columbia University, has rummaged through the cultural bric-a-brac of American Victoriana-ministerial bombast, dreadful 19th century novels, and fatuous, hypocritical ladies' magazines. She has made the proper linkages to British Victorianism and German romantic philosophy. She has analyzed...