Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lovely days disappear, the planets turn in circles, but you walk straight toward what you cannot see: the dark days, the sagging skin." The lugubrious sentiment is by Poet Raymond Queneau, but the dark caramel voice which murmurs it in throbbing French in a newly released Columbia album belongs to a 29-year-old Parisian chanteuse named Juliette Greco. For U.S. listeners the album offers a fresh view of a singer whose literate, melancholy repertory and haunting voice have made her the musical idol of the existentialists and a reigning favorite along the music hall and nightclub circuit...
...between Nordic melancholy and Parisian pornography, he admits, comes close to truth. "For . . . there is in existentialism a shocking sensualism, an erotic realism, a tearful and throbbing meeting of skin against skin, which, so characteristically French, appreciates propinquity of heart and fingertip." At the same time existentialism contains "a sentiment of constantly living over cracking earth, or at the foot of live volcanos, or in a land where people fight two wars in every lifetime...
...Dashes. Duke's Dave Sime broke from the starting blocks in his trial heat, took four strides and collapsed onto the track, a flame of pain burning in his groin. The U.S. Olympic Committee had waived a sound rule, but on sound sentiment, to allow Sime to compete in the 200 meters after the same pulled muscle kept him from qualifying at the N.C.A.A. trials. But Sime could not even finish the 100, and slamming his fist against a locker-room door later, he moaned: "What shall I do now? What?" Abilene Christian's Bobby Morrow, perhaps...
Mind if I Make Love to You (Len Dresslar; Mercury). A Cole Porter song, from the forthcoming film High Society, that sounds like one of the old ones, with its well-mannered melody, its discreet rumba rhythm, its inner rhymes. Only the sentiment grates...
Every bishop and vicar knew what he meant. There is much latent sentiment in secular Britain against the state-linked church (it showed recently during the Princess Margaret-Captain Townsend controversy). If Parliament turned down the churchmen's divorce clause, then the bishops and vicars would have to choose either to defy Parliament or to back down, thus inviting the disestablishmentarians to go to work. Disestablishment would mean loss of state protection, possibly some lands, and the privilege of crowning England's monarchs...