Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heroics of the line, The Show Must Go On, often muffle entirely the foolhardy aspects of the sentiment. There are times when the star is better off in her dressing room nursing a broken heart or a case of mumps. There are even times when an entire show could be discreetly removed from circulation and, by withdrawal, best serve the cause of theatre tradition. Producer Elizabeth Miele and her cast have a game battlecry in the title On With the Show; by retreating quickly they might live to fight another...
...Republican Party on the national level. New York State is not quite the impregnable stronghold of liberal Republicanism that one might gather from the editorial pages of the Chicago Tribune. One of the lesser-known facts about the 1952. Republican convention is that there was considerable Taft sentiment in the New York delegation. It has been estimated that as many as fifty delegates were personally favorable to Taft. But when Dewey cracked the whip, the elephant performed as a good elephant should and gave almost 100 votes to Eisenhower, assuring him of the nomination. No Sabu with Dewey's skills...
...quote me as shouting, "You people have just succeeded in ruining this lecture for everyobody else," and your account suggests that this sweet sentiment "checked" the "throng." I submit that (a) I didn't say it (b) it wasn't true, and (c) no self-respecting throng would have been checked by such a shout. What I did say, among other things, was that if the noise should continue, it would ruin the lecture for others; it is only a difference in tense, but it substantially affects the meaning. The reasons was prompt and cooperative...
High and Dry is an apt description of where this picture leaves its moments of excellent humor. Stranded above a morass of soggy sentiment and damp moralizing are the touches that have pushed British comedy beyond popularity to the point...
...facets of the war. First is General Lee's Grand March, a frothy two-step that might have come from Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment. Next come wistful and militant soldiers' songs, e.g., Bonnie Blue Flag and Somebody's Darling. Others are drenched with sentiment; still others suggest the progressive bitterness of the occupation...