Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shrine, an old Japanese farmer paused last week to explain his year-end pilgrimage. "The people's feelings are settling down," the farmer said. "From now on it will be best for us to be what we really are-Japanese." In Tokyo a Japanese editorial writer echoed the sentiment more formally: "The whole nation is searching for its lost pride." Last week the search was in full swing...
...Hatoyama clambered back into his black Cadillac, a reporter asked him why he had come to Ise. Answered Hatoyama without hesitation: "As a renovation of popular sentiment...
...numbers have lyrics that are either predictable from the first line or so contrived that his past offenses look pallid. In "Paris Loves Lovers," for example, he perpetrates something about Paris bringing out "the urge to merge with a splurge." This sentiment is repeated three times, so I am doing Porter no injustice through misquotation...
...play sometimes seems quaint, that is perhaps because every woman knows so much more than she did in 1908. But few playwrights today know half as much about smart box-office methods as Barrie did then. After 46 years, his sense of theater and shrewd manipulation of sentiment still...
...Melody Time-looked like mashed potatoes all right, but they didn't bring in much gravy. Disney's next big picture, however, made plenty: Cinderella may eventually outgross Snow White. And though Alice in Wonderland was a flop, Peter Pan was another smash hit. which exchanged Barrie sentiment for Hollywood slapstick and almost made the crocodile the hero...