Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In 1962, long after his creative peak, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize. By that time, he was writing sentimental elegies to the American character like Travels with Charley and America and Americans. His last novel of any consequence, East of Eden, had been published over a decade earlier, and his...
After the boom, slump. Millet had died in 1875, having greatly influenced Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat, blue-period Picasso and especially Vincent Van Gogh. Later, modernism lost interest in images of rural labor; they were derided as sentimental masscult. Millet sank from view, leaving behind one obdurate cliché...
The very notion of "creativity" seems, in Velasquez's presence, a sentimental impertinence. He was unquestionably the deepest painter of matter who ever lived.
Crackling Intelligence. This is the risk that most sentimental entertainment runs: touching the heart while by passing the mind. Author Russell Hoban, 50, does not take that shortcut.
'Omaha is hot, dry and boring," reads an old Crimson sports page. "The dusty air, blown in off the great plains, is arid and uncomfortable." As the "color" piece goes on, dated 1973, it becomes clear that the on-location reporter hates Omaha. Still, he betrays his excitement about the...