Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Golden Boy (1939). A Clifford Odets play about a boxer who feels he must give up the ring and devote himself to the violin. This is a sentiment that plagues many prize fighters. Ch. 38, 7:30 p.m. B/W, 1 1/2 hours...
Marichal said the Spanish government was too cautious to intervene militarily in Portugal, but it might increase repression within its own nation to dampen liberal sentiment. At the same time, the Spanish people might become "envious" of Portugal and seek similar changes in their own society, he added...
...typists were reluctant to comment before their vote at 11:30 a.m. today, but sources close to the union said yesterday that there is much sentiment among the typists to join the union. Butler said he did not know whether the typists will vote to join the union...
...they were confiding in us and letting us share their frustrations. So when Brel's tone shifts from despair to hope in the final song, and the performers walk on stage holding hands and quietly singing "If We Only Had Love," we're completely taken in by the sentiment. Suddenly there is an antidote for all of the pain...
...Noah's graduation from a North Philadelphia elementary school in June 1972, Lois Mark Stalvey felt nothing but "a bleak hopelessness." When the new graduates, mostly black, began to sing We've Only Just Begun, tears streamed down her cheeks, but not from sentiment. "I was weeping for all the bright-faced children who were leaving their last chance behind," she writes in Getting Ready (Morrow; $7.95). Her new book is both a remarkable chronicle of a white family's confrontation with inner-city schools and a harsh indictment of an educational system that is a disaster...