Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nostalgia flowers naturally in worried times, which makes other eras seem better. But the contemporary fascination with nostalgia also reflects a different kind of judgment on our age. There is a discontent with the present, a foreboding of a plastic future, a looking back with longing to times that were...
The Time of Your Life, by William Saroyan, is a journey back to October, 1939--one that is sometimes sentimental, but nearly always absorbing. One character after another wanders in to Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace, each with his or her own memories, hopes, disappointments, etc...
Southerners scored a sentimental victory last week when the House, following the Senate, voted to restore full citizenship to General Robert E. Lee, a mere 110 years after he had applied for it. Another old Southern question was not so tranquilly disposed of, namely the question of black citizens'...
The Parnell legend, so peculiarly suited to the romantic side of 19th century politics and the sentimental side of the Irish heart, reduced James Joyce to bitter parody in his short story, Ivy Day in the Committee Room (1905) published 14 years after Parnell's death. Joyce Marlow'...
To Be Or Not To Be, with Ernst Lubitach directing Jack Benny as the noted and great polish actor Joseph Tura, this is one of the funniest movies ever made What's amazing about it is when it was made in 1942, a bit before the U.S. got into the...