Word: sentimentales
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The Christmas cards we put on our mantels and tuck in our Venetian blinds are not just greetings from relatives, friends, would-be friends and dry cleaners. They are mirrors of American culture-the neighborly and the utopian, the tacky and the cutesie, the schmaltzy and the smutty, the corny...
Dealing with new playwrights is in any case, a messy, time-consuming, demoralizing business. Ninety per cent of them have no reason for writing a play beyond being stage-struck; and most manuscripts are either plodding, sentimental TV problem plays, or blank-verse behemoths that would make Milton blanch. The...
On Jascha Heifetz's Mozart. [It] tries . . . to make out of the greatest musician the world has ever known something between a sentimental Pierrot and a Dresden china clock.
IF GOOD INTENTIONS could be staged it would be "hats-in-the-air, heart-in-the-mouth time" for the American theatre: the American Premiere Stage has managed to hoist its flag and sail out in search of American playwrights to produce--those orphans adrift in our media-swamped culture...
Maya Angelou cannot use the same excuse. She has not been forced, by the threat of Hollywood unemployment, to reduce her past to sentimental and glib reminiscences. For she too has become observer of her own past in bringing her audience closer to famous Black men and women in American...