Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Public sentiment around the Broadmoor vastly prefers a Crimson victory tonight. As most of the lobby loungers are CC fans, they are "tired of seeing Michigan win," and they would also much rather have the Tigers face the Crimson tomorrow night than the Wolverines
...much: it goes for its laughs to what has many times been laughed at. and in the very act of milking the comic side of Jewish family life, sadly waters it down. Schulman belongs, in fact, to the two-faucet school of playwriting: what's not comedy is sentiment. And at the end, anything knotty or disconcerting just goes down the drain: Pop may play fast and loose, but he loves his son; Uncle may rant and roar, but he eventually writes out a check. There are amusing enough moments; Garson Kanhvs staging is brisk, and Paul Douglas...
Included in the exhibit are samples of the Dada movement, whese adherents preached the worthlessness of human endeavor and the non-existence of spiritual values. This school reflected the nihilist sentiment that culminated in the outbreak of Nazism...
...Journal won all rights to the Katzenjammer Kids title and hired the late Harold (Dinglehoofer und His Dog) Knerr to draw the strip. Dirks took the Katzies, as he calls them, to the World and started a new comic strip called Hans and Fritz. To appease anti-German sentiment in World War I, he changed the name to The Captain and the Kids (Knerr, who rechristened his wards The Shenanigan Kids for the duration, even had the kids go to court to swear that they hailed from The Netherlands...
...Radcliffe cycling, it is a strong detriment to young love. For example, in the days of Kittredge, and those were the days, Harvard-Radcliffe couples could follow the course of true romance while walking down Garden Street. But nowadays, the bicycle has turned romantic love into mechanized warfare; sentiment gives way to slaughter...