Word: sentimentalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern architecture may look good on a college campus, but alumni seldom think so. They want the new buildings they finance to look just like the old ones for sentiment as well as for the sake of architectural harmony. Florida's University of Miami is trying to solve the architectural problem by a clean break with its not-so-distant (1925) past: it is building an all-modern school on a new campus...
...strange, yet significant, heritage to his work. His father was Colonel Jacob Wark ("Roaring Jake") Griffith, a Confederate cavalry officer given to florid readings of Shakespeare. Like him, young D. W. had a stentorian voice, a tough physical frame, and a character that mixed moral austerity with poetic sentiment. He absorbed the attitude of the post-bellum Southerner to the Nouhern carpetbagger and the problems of the new freed men. When his talents and his viewpoint merged in The Birth of a Nation, a story of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and the first Ku Klux Klan, the cinema...
There have usually been hidden wells of sentiment in Mr. Cain's characters. Even in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Frank, though handy enough at murder with a wrench, sometimes thought about God while in swimming. The Moth gets its title from the fluttering blue-green Luna moth that Jack Dillon falls in love with as a little boy and ever after remembers at beautiful moments...
...Decision. Next day the White House was deluged with urgent calls from Philadelphia. Harry Truman said he just wanted to feel out the sentiment of the delegates, insisted that he had made no hard & fast decision. In fact, he did not even know definitely that Douglas was available...
...worst possible conditions. Germans hated Communism, partly because of long years of anti-Communist indoctrination by the Nazis, but Germans also had a deep-rooted historical fear of Slavs, which was further deepened by the Red Army's excesses in looting and vandalism. This barrier of German sentiment against the Red tide had been one of the rock-bottom facts in the cold war. By last week, the fact was tottering under the astute propaganda of the Russians...