Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the armies of Mao Tse Tung first swept down from the north of China, there was a sentiment akin to satisfaction in many non-Communist, liberal circles. Favored among the terms describing the revolution were "agrarian reform" and "the real will of the Chinese people." Supposedly, the Chinese communists were fairly decent reformers who were completing China's fight against Japanese domination by ending the joint rule of Chaing Kai-Shek and corruption...
...19th-century judgment that Mozart's music was superficial and "tinkly" (with the exception of a few "romantic" works like the D-Minor Piano Concerto) is now very much discredited. But this viewpoint shows how radically different was the 18th-century conception of profundity and sentiment from that of the succeeding period. With Mozart (and in this he is typical of one of the strongest currents of his age) it is often the simple and obvious which is the profound; but of course the naivete is deceptive, and the real meaning of the phrase is neither simple nor obvious...
...letter writer, Colin kept his telegraphic style: he was terse, stuck to the main points, ruthlessly cut out punctuation and unnecessary sentiment...
...turn of the century agitation mounted among Harvard alumni to replace the stands with something more permanent. The Transcript echoed alumni sentiment when it said, in March...
...Gordon wrote it for the stage (as Years Ago, it ran for six months in 1947), and it is an expert comedy now that she has rewritten it for the screen. However, it is no more than expertise. Playwright-Actress Gordon is too cool a professional ever to let sentiment interfere with business, which in this instance, when she is writing about her own girlhood, means that a true feeling is never allowed to foul up a good line. Nevertheless, The Actress offers an unusually pleasant evening at the movies...