Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choruses are all blended to give the impression of a great spectacle. To call "Show Boat" a musical comedy would be far from conveying a definition, as to call "Green Pasture" a play. It is not puny, like many plays of its type. It combines all the sentiment and carefully unwinding plots of "The Cat and the Fiddle," but it is not fastidious nor in it a madcap like "The Laugh Parade...
...There is absolutely no reality in criticism, but it is among the more pleasant and interesting of indoor games--in fact far more interesting than chess. All criticism agrees in fact, but not in sentiment and therefore literary judgment is worthless," said Bernard DeVoto '20, Instructor in the Department of English, in an interview...
...Sentiment among the House Masters favors the adoption of Inter-House eating, but to all it is obvious that there are necessary restrictions to prevent over-taxing of the facilities of any one House Dining Hall, to the partial abandonment of any others. If unlimited House eating were allowed, the accommodations of Adams House would be seriously strained on rainy days, because of its proximity to the Yard. Houses nearer the river would not be used much during the luncheon hours...
Another consternating item of last week's news was the summary discharge of Emil Gumbel, statistician visiting the Genetics Congress, from his professorship in the University of Heidelberg. The reported reason: he had offended Heidelberg's patriotic sentiment by declaring that "a turnip is better than a war monument, than a statue adorned by scantily clad ladies." Professor Gumbel denied saying this...
...July, a drop in steel ingot output this week to about 15%, a recession in the price of heavy melting steel scrap at Pittsburgh, a further falling off in automobile production, and the failure of steel and pig iron bookings to show any noticeable change for the better, sentiment in the iron and steel industry remains buoyant...