Word: sentimentalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of a decent post-antiquity theatre for plays, concerts, forums, etc. had been grumbled over for years, and the Alumni were quick to see that a building filling these gaps in the network of extracurricular activities would also fill the requirements of a war memorial. With general sentiment in favor of the Activities Center, it was decided that the Associated Harvard Clubs and the Alumni Association would appoint a committee to consider in detail the war memorial question and to report to the president and Fellows, who have the final word...
...letters in general reflected the sentiment found in one, which said in part: "Your action brings real relief to those who need it most--survivors of concentration camps, members of the resistance movement, and the politically persecuted . . . We only want to assure you that every one of us greatly enjoyed the food stuff...
There have now been three by-elections which tested political sentiment since the Dominion election of mid-1945.* Tories had won twice, a Social Crediter once (in Quebec last month). There was no longer denying the nation's surge to the right...
...makers of Margie had the good taste, good sense and steady hands to avoid cuteness, undue hokum and the extremes of either patronizing burlesque or sticky sentiment. The acting is restrained and sometimes touching, the color pleasant, the music nostalgic (Avalon, I'll See You in My Dreams, Three O'Clock in the Morning). As Jeanne's grandmother remarks somewhere in the story: "At your age, child, everything is wonderful." Margie's camera somehow manages to look at things with a 16-year-old's wonderful perspective. Oldsters now crowding 40 can be grateful...
...strut; he polished the wit and dug out the humor in this cleverest of swaggerers. Best of all, he suggested that self-dramatizing streak in Cyrano that gives a wry pleasure to his frustrations - and that gives the play its gill of psychology as well as its hogshead of sentiment...