Word: sentimentalist
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...Haldane Macfall can write. He has an extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective pen. He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it. He has a mental balance that is quite above pessimism-a rare attribute in a realist. Neither moralist nor sentimentalist, he writes a thoroughly first rate novel simply by being an incisive observer with an ironic humor and a measurable amount of sympathy...
First the sentimentalist who rabidly opposes the University. He disapproves the administrative policy for enlargement of the graduate schools. He asks for more consideration of the undergraduate body, and less attention to the schools for advanced study. In defense of the administration, it must be said that the graduate and undergraduate schools are symbolic. Neither could exist without the other. Men of the highest calibre would not be content to teach elementary courses without the resources of the graduate schools. We should lose their services. The greatness of Yale lies not in the superficialities acquired with the college or Sheff...
...Artist. Gilbert had an eye for the absurd, in government, in the Law, in personalities. He was never tired of mocking the foibles of the England he loved. But in this book he is represented as a sentimentalist gone wrong. He himself was fonder of his serious comedies than of his triumphant excursions into topsy-turvydom. He was never fully aware of the peculiar quality of his own genius. Up to the end, he rebelled against the critics who, he felt, were forcing him to don the cap and bells, which became him so well...
...high school of Racine, Wis. He has been a journalist for years. He was a correspondent in Berlin in 1918-19. His back-page feature stories for the Chicago Daily News were the best of their kind. They were the reactions of a rather peculiar brand of sentimentalist to the more simple and sordid phases of existence. They have been collected under the title A Thousand and One Nights in Chicago...
...adventuress. A combination of circumstances drives her to the wall--as the play progresses her true character is revealed little by little and we see her as a woman of high soul and pure heart. Finally she marries her old flame, the rich cynic, now turned sentimentalist...