Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Showman Billy Rose wrote: "A heart-warming salute and an endearing one." Retired Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney seconded Rose's sentiment with a telegram: "Louis, that TIME article is the finest I have ever seen...
...first act of the Metropolitan Opera's new Don Pasquale, Baritone Frank Guarrera peeks behind a screen where Coloratura Roberta Peters is making an onstage costume change. "Brava," he sings with a leer. "Brava, brava!" That sentiment might well serve as comment on the whole production. Peters & Co. have turned Gaetano Donizetti's old (1843) comic opera into something to cheer about...
...have little party loyalty. California's "modern" constitution gives the people the power to initiate legislation by ballot, to pass on acts of the legislature by referendum and to recall elected officeholders by popular vote before their terms have expired. All this puts a high premium on public sentiment and on shifts in it. Whitaker & Baxter, filling the vacuum created by the destruction of old-style party organization, are specialists in public sentiment...
...Starting with the Tanagra woman and reading clockwise, their price tags read: $517.50, $115, $345 and $230. The makers of the terra cottas were low-caste artisans, often slaves, who turned out art by the ovenful, like cookies, mostly for the grave trade. Whether out of superstition or sentiment, their wares were heaped in tombs, and so sometimes survived the centuries. Many of the figures are thought to be free little interpretations of lost great sculptures. They narrowly reflect, as in a rear-view mirror, the lucid, passionate, sun-swept world of the ancient Mediterranean...
More realistically, the Formosan government fears that the majority of those nations admitted in the "package deal" would be willing to vote to seat Communist China, and thus promote the "two China" sentiment which is growing so rapidly in Washington and at the UN. Every step forward for Communist China is a step backward, economically and politically, for the Nationalists. The veto is a calculated risk to dynamite acceptance of Red China by the world body...