Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCann is sentimental when he calls Eli Black's suicide and the decline of United Fruit a tragedy. He has fastened onto the right image, but for the wrong people: it is unlikely that many tears were shed in Tegucigalpa. Black's plunge from the Pan American Building was the...
The U.S. greeting-card industry has unhesitatingly responded to this avalanche of social change. One way has been to try to restore order, to look back on simpler times when people got married, stayed married, bought houses, had kids and did not question who was playing what role. (It was...
Tragic, comic and sentimental as only Irish plays can be, The Plough and the Stars is one of the plays that has made Ireland's Abbey Theatre world-renowned (not only as a center of culture, but as the focus of controversy). The Plough and the Stars was chosen for...
Hough moves with an essayist's grace from lemonade to his dislike of meetings, from Virginia Woolf to George Borrow. He is never sentimental, but he does not give up on old affections either. He is master of the splendidly abrupt transition: "In December 1971 I threw out all...
"He had an extraordinary faith in reason," Freund said, "some might say a pathetic faith in reason." But Brandeis was not sentimental, Freund said, adding, "He could be quite tough-minded."