Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire dulled by sentiment, but all the same a good movie from a great novel; with Geérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire dulled by sentiment, but all the same a good movie from a great novel; with Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
Said Dulles: "I would not say there is any general anti-American sentiment among the people of Venezuela." He ascribed the Caracas riot to the fact that "the police force maintained under Pedro Estrada [police chief under Perez Jimenez] had been virtually liquidated, and the subsitute police did not know how to cope with the mob." This was also the verdict of experts on the scene, appalled by the ease with which a crowd of several hundred rioters tied up the police. Dulles' statement was perfectly accurate; some touchy Venezuelans reacted, however, as though he were lamenting the liquidation...
Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire dulled by sentiment, but all the same a good movie from a great novel; with Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
...settled for the wanton Creole widow, Rose-Josephine de Beauharnais. A French marriage, he felt, would make him French, and he changed his name accordingly, dropping the "u." Later he admitted that Josephine had come straight from another lover's bed, but there was sentiment of a sort. On St. Helena Napoleon confessed: "I really did love her; I had no respect for her. She was too much of a liar. But there was something taking about her. She was a true woman. She had the prettiest little tail imaginable...