Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word: goo. And Director Henry King has chosen to smear it pretty thickly on the screen. Goo is, of course, a major ingredient of every Hammerstein libretto, but in Oklahoma!, for instance-even in the movie version, which starred the same two singers (TIME, Oct. 24)-the sentiment was cut with a dash of comic bitters. In this production the players play it so coy that they sometimes seem close to baby talk. Actor MacRae sings pleasantly, though, and so do Shirley Jones and Robert Rounseville...
...Free Officers" clique that overthrew Egypt's King Farouk. They found allies against Glubb in Premier Rifai and in Queen Mother Zaine, who has been collecting a $280,000 annual subsidy from Saudi Arabia's King Saud to work against the British position. Last week, with nationalist sentiment running high, the officers forced the young King to choose between General Glubb and his own throne...
...recent meeting of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, meeting in India, crystallized the sentiment among many under developed nations against bi-lateral aid. Fearing that direct aid often carried with it undesirable outside pressure on internal political affairs, the meeting adjourned agreeing that aid should be channeled instead through regional funds like the Colombo Plan, and through the United Nations itself. While the vagueness of the Asian nations' fears may obscure their legitimate complaints, the fact that the fears exist should lead the U.S. to increase its own allotment to regional and international funds...
...life of the present Freshman Smoker may come to a sudden halt this year, for increased student as well as Administrative sentiment seems to indicate that the 1956-type Smoker is no longer deemed necessary to freshman life...
...Public sentiment against boxing in colleges, which did not consider this Preamble, grew in the late forties with the arrival of television. People saw the sport on the professional level, coach Lamarr explained, and thought that all boxing was like that...