Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Her sentimental journey creates more chill than charm. She is unsettled to find Belfast decorated for the festival of July 12-the date in 1690 of the Battle of the Boyne which "ensured the preservation of the true Protestant Christian faith against the Whore of Rome."
The book owes a heavy debt to Editor Asher, who reorganized the chief's verbal and written memories. Yet starting with Red Fox's recollection of learning as a child "to make a fishhook from the rib of a field mouse," the reader will rarely be aware of...
What is most annoying about Lerner's adaptation is its complete lack of a moral sense. Certainly Nabokov's book wasn't written to make parents more vigilant in bringing up their children, but there is a real feeling that what Humbert has done is wrong, that he has destroyed...
The resulting work- From Here to Eternity- was considered by Mailer to be the best post-war American novel; it is also one of the best novels of any time and country dealing with military life. Its virtues are its breadth, its honesty, and its passion. Jones was a dogface...
The alumni, on the other hand, oppose equal sex admissions for more sentimental reasons. Somehow it just wouldn't sound right to sing "Ten thousand men and women of Harvard," Alumni, especially the older ones (who often happen to be the more generous ones) look back with pride upon the...