Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best friend is his mother." In pre-Freudian times, that sentiment was a shibboleth; it even served as the title of a straight-faced song. But as the principle of a 1971 film? Surely Scenarist-Director Jules Dassin jests. Or does...
...poetry is not of the very best, but the sentiment is clear, and strong. Perhaps it is a key to Melville's relative lack of popularity during his lifetime-his opposition to the most popular cause of the century...
...among five people in a car and it comes out to $15 each. If you need a ride or can offer rides, call the CRIMSON and leave the necessary information. the presence of 16 American soldiers in Cambodia was "a direct violation of the intention of the Senate, the sentiment of the country, and the President's statement of last June." At that time, Harrington said, Nixon "said that we would not give direct air support to either Cambodians or South Vietnamese and that we would not support ground operations...
When the age of sentiment arrived in the late 18th century, emotions, it is true, were treated with more forbearance. The Utopian socialist thinker Charles Fourier designed a "phalanstery" (from the Greek "phalanx"), a community where self-expression was to be freely indulged; its 1,600 inhabitants-the ideal number-would work and make love as they pleased, at least until the millennium came, when the oceans would be transformed into the kind of lemonade Fourier enjoyed at Paris cafes. But the principal passion of most Utopias continued to be rule making. A mythical land called Lithconia, invented...
...middle and latter '60s, romanticism became "camp." Old movies were appreciated because the emotion was behind glass, and confined to a 20-inch screen. On that scale, a kid could safely dig Bogart's telling Sam to play As Time Goes By without being accused of emotionalism. Sentiment, no matter how florid, was permissible if it was ancient: westerns, turn-of-the-century valentines, revivals of theater period pieces like The Front Page or Harvey (preferably with period stars like James Stewart and Helen Hayes). Novels could be as old-fashioned as Silas Marner, provided that they shared the joke...