Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sombre like the moorland wastes of Yorkshire, the second complementary to the Victorian setting, and the third the stiff, conservative type of people like those most shocked by the rebel novel in 1847. Not that the audience did not laugh in the wrong places at the nineteenth-century sentiment; not that they weren't amused at Jane Eyre's maidenly chastity: the way she folded her hands when she sat down before her master and was careful that the needles were stuck firmly in her knitting as Rochester seized her in his arms; but it seemed the Boston...
...novel there are faults; in fact many errors of judgment. Considering the difficulty under which she labored, the metamorphosing of a nineteenth-century story into a vehicle that will appeal to the calloused audience of today, as a whole it is a creditable job. To make polished sentiment sound convincing to a sentiment-hating public is not easy. At first Miss Jerome starts off on the wrong foot by encouraging the audience to laugh at the florid language, and then later depending on it to grasp the drama when the same language is used in tense moments. But in spite...
...effect of "Life's a Villain" is somewhat bewildering. The title, the first sight of the sophisticated crowd which serves as a background for the main story, the first blares of commonness from nouvelles-riches Mrs. Holt and Mrs. Turner; all lead one to expect social commentary rather than sentiment, for surely these people are not here just to be amusing. But then you do get the sentiment. And it's often quite nice. One only wishes that he did not get that disturbing feeling of something not quite said...
...revision of the recent parietal rules, the President and the seven House Masters of Harvard should receive the gratitude of the University. This step not only proves a willingness to hear and consider the unanimous sentiment of the undergraduate body, but also reveals the determination of the authorities to avoid, wherever possible, reactionary methods of discipline and intolerable instances of police control. In the face of this type of administration, Harvard will never be accused of antiquarian methods of running its own house or of failing to live up to its promise of progressive liberality in all its dealings...
...parietal rules. For want of a better method, the "two-woman" plan was instituted and was immediately condemned on every side. Backed by a large majority of the undergraduates, the CRIMSON came out strongly against the rule and conducted a poll to determine the exact amount of adverse sentiment...