Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower's main task will be to help in translating popular sentiment into enthusiastic Ike delegates. Many a politico, impressed by the New Hampshire and Minnesota votes, is now wavering or moving reluctantly into the Eisenhower camp under popular pressure. If they can shake Ike's hand and exchange views with him, they will feel a lot better-and the Ike campaign will be protected against the possibility of a Taft-MacArthur drive in the convention hall...
...MacArthur freshened his image as a contemporary statesman, than he began fading back again into the shadows. This week he visited Little Rock, Ark., where he was born 72 years ago while his father, Arthur MacArthur, was in command of the old Army arsenal. Obviously caught in the sentiment of the occasion, Douglas MacArthur, in fine, old-fashioned prose, deliberately stressed his heaviest political liability: his age. "For me," he said, in what proved to be a thoroughly nonpolitical speech, "the shadows are deepening. I left Little Rock long, long years ago when life was simpler and gentler. The world...
...considered expiation. Many Israelis still carry concentration-camp numbers tattooed on their arms; almost all mourn murdered relatives. The prospect of sitting down with the Germans to discuss a financial settlement seemed degrading. But Israel, financially desperate and short of everything, could not even afford pride and sentiment. Opposition newspapers reprinted old photographs of naked, emaciated concentration-camp victims stacked, like cordwood, for burning, but there was little else...
Despite this technical excellence, I find it difficult to recommend Flesh and Fury. Ten minutes of fisticuffs is hardly worth the hour and twenty minutes of sentiment and moralizing that goes on between bouts...
...suite of seven short pieces by Louis Couperin opened the program. I especially liked Tombeau de M. de Blancrocher, a threnody for harpsichord with modern sounding dissonances and a fascinating bass line. Melville Smith, who is Director of the Longy School, played with great sensitivity, but avoided the exaggerated sentiment that usually mars works of this nature...