Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like all decent/indecent Restoration comedies, the play cuts to the chase, the chaste and the unchaste. The masquerading Master Aimwell (Ronald Pickup) pursues Dorinda (Sheila Reid) with lofty ardor. They are a fluttery pair, brimming with sentiment and much given to pledges of undying affection and confessional honesty. The masquerading servant, Archer (Robert Stephens), has the cool, calculating charm of an accomplished womanizer. The woman he now wants, Mrs. Sullen (Maggie Smith), has had but one melancholy tutor: her husband. He is an alcoholic brute who keeps her in the country when her only heaven is London. As the chase...
...weekend ended, the sentiment was one of relief that the planning, organizing, and actualizing was almost finished. "Thank God it's over," sighed Dale Partoll 73, or of the East House switch...
...going to get involved. I demand some compensation. If I'm donating my time, energy, money, and promising future to the liberation of non-elites throughout the world then "they" better damn well appreciate it. A pretty egocentric sentiment, to be sure, but an easy one to slip into in the absence of any gratifying political victories...
...Dubridge, President Nixon's Science Advisor, Monday night said that "There is a lot of sentiment around here [in Washington] for just letting the center fold and letting the people go out and get jobs...
Blumenthal would be the youngest person that Nixon has appointed to a position of comparable prominence in his administration. The White House is reportedly carefully testing congressional sentiment about the appointment, which must be confirmed by the Senate...