Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...golden opportunity that it largely muffs. For its music fails to vibrate, to express dramatically or even evoke nostalgically the picturesque American life it was part of. Instead of trying to get as close to history as it can in the way of frontier lustiness, sectional color and period sentiment, Sing Out, Sweet Land! burlesques a good deal of the past, and emasculates a good deal more...
...wondered: Is this only a special mood induced by the special ravages of war in Britain? Perhaps this British editor is more honest than American editors? What I especially wondered was whether this British editor's sentiment is one that TIME'S editors share, secretly or otherwise...
Back from Author Ehrenburg came an adamant reply: "Respected Lady Gibb, you are just mistaken in charging me with particular vindictiveness. As a son of my people ... I am voicing our common sentiment. You say, strange lady, that evil cannot triumph. That is true because ranged against evil are human beings...
Only later was "the legend of his inaccessibility . . . developed." Out of working hours his household found him full of "gay nonsense" and friendliness. lie enjoyed whittling, because, he said: "Waittiers are thinkers . . . and from groups of whittlers come the trickles of sentiment and conviction which merge at last to form the broad stream of public opinion." In the evening he liked to read poetry aloud to the assembled family, or sing snatches of Gilbert & Sullivan and Scottish ballads. He loved to play the "heavy villain" in family melodramas, "dragging one foot behind him, scowling over his shoulder," and barking...
...combat areas," the Herald Tribune was told, "there was no doubt about the sentiment. Out of 400 officers questioned at one post, only three replied affirmatively...