Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S review of The Inn of the Sixth Happiness [Dec. 22] was more jejune than usual. The sophomore-with-typewriter who pecked out this tirade quite evidently cannot distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality. The movie has more "treacle [than] the Great Boston Molasses Flood." Why not park your lad next to his cliché factory and pray for a small explosion...
Allowing itself a brief lapse into professional sentiment, the New York Times took editorial note of the end of the 19-day newspaper strike, which had cost nine New York dailies $30 million. Said the Times: "The sounds dear to the newspaper man's heart, the clattering Linotypes, the thump of the make-up man's mallet, the thunder of the presses, the soft swish of the emerging newspapers: this song will not be silenced...
...political enemies; on the contrary he has made an extraordinary number of personal friends on both sides of the aisle. But the G.O.P.'s disaster at the polls in November, which shaved its Congressional forces to 153 against 283 Democrats, produced a good deal of "Fire the manager" sentiment among the members of the team...
...response would have warmed O. Henry's heart. Newspapers all over the U.S. leaped at the bait; feature writers and editorialists wallowed in reminiscence of and sentiment for O. Henry. From a White House lawyer came a letter formally expressing President Eisenhower's "regret" that he was powerless to reverse the 60-year-old jury decree. Thereupon Texas' Democratic Representative Homer Thornberry announced that he was studying the possibility of asking for quick action by Congress. Intoned the Chicago Sun-Times: "A grateful and appreciative American public pardoned O. Henry many, many years...
There is some sentiment in the faculty to accelerate a first year language course to the extent that Cornell has, the result being that the student would be able to pass his language requirement at the end of his first year (provided he had had little or no training in high school). According to Geary, the best year the Language department has had to date was 1955 when 30% of the first year students passed their language requirement at the end of their first year. It is then possible that, if the accelerated course were put in, a far larger...