Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illicit yet innocent relationship, he sends his daughter to the countryside on a "journey of forgetting," and he warns Florentino not to write, much less speak, to his daughter again. Florentino resolves to love Fermina forever, but when he approaches her after her return from the countryside, her sentiment has obviously changed. "Instead of the commotion of love she felt the abyss of disenchantment," and Fermina cries out to him, "No please! Forget it!" His hopes dashed for love in the present, Florentino contents himself with faith in the eternal...
...rescue her daughter from the implications of her fertility. Dorothy "knew the cost, in every way, of a family, even a small one." She dispenses advice just as Lessing provides us with a cautionary tale, a morality play. Lessing observes the irresponsibilty of her society and echoes the sentiment Dorothy has about her daughter. She says, "Sometimes you scare...
...have strong feelings on the final club issue, or any other issue where the Council tries to take a "moderate," nonconfrontational stand, are not taken seriously; in purporting to represent the students on such matters, the Council, as the official student representative, winds up diluting strong student sentiment. If it wants to be anything other than the butt of chocolate milk jokes, it needs to get some people upset--at least occasionally...
Onstage, City Ballet justified both the sentiment and the celebration. Jerome Robbins' brilliant Glass Pieces seemed as sleek as it did at its premiere five years ago. McBride swept through George Balanchine's The Man I Love looking half her 45 years. Company Director Peter Martins came out of retirement to honor his ideal partner, Suzanne Farrell, 42, who had a new plastic hip, performing with her in his version of Sophisticated Lady, set to the Duke Ellington song. The finale, danced like fireworks by Kyra Nichols, came from Balanchine's ebullient Stars and Stripes. It was just like...
...professionals estimated that the President could also count on 3 percentage points from Le Pen's first-round total. That support, they thought, would come mainly from disenchanted Communists in working-class districts, where Le Pen sentiment was often strongest. Such voters had cast anti- immigrant protest ballots in the first round, but were expected to return to the leftist fold in the runoff. An additional 2 points of support was expected from Barre voters. All that would push Mitterrand over the top with nearly...