Word: sentimentality
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...present day? There are a good many 'longtimers' in here and other similar institutions who have had nothing to do with the outside or its affairs for many years, and it is these men, it seems, who will have to suffer and bear the brunt of public sentiment, because many years ago they made mistakes. Don't blame the 'oldtimers' for what is going on in the outside world. They are innocent of existing conditions. . . . Let them share your joy in the New Deal...
...Professor Mercier defines humanism, and he does a very good job of defining something to which he is attached, without sentiment and without heroics. He could not, in truth, be a good humanist otherwise...
Mellifluous sentiment oozes from the mouth of Lionel Barrymore. It is a pleasant shock. Only once in his performance as the unselfish country doctor does he resort to his hair-pulling act. "One Man's Journey" depicts the life of a generous rural physician who struggles and struggles to amass enough money for research work. When he has the opportunity to go to the medical center in New York, he is detained because little Letty McGinnis swallows iodine. At the end we see him still struggling in the country. "One Man's Journey" is not an epic...
...League this would entail. By blocking action at Stresa, he hopes to force Hitler back into the Geneva parley, but it is highly questionable that this can be done. For Hitler's dominance, like the dominance of any dictator, depends upon the concrete results he can show, and German sentiment is that not much save elocution can come from Geneva...
...hold power, the dictators and the premiers of Europe and all whose interests they represent, have found a weapon ready-forged for their purposes, and one which they have wielded well. That weapon is the spirit of nationalism. With conviction born of psychological necessity these men have hallowed that sentiment with the bathos of a thousand speeches, a thousand parades. Pushed on by the pressure of those who would upset them, they have identified the welfare of the country with the success of their own class; and they have further attempted to lay a smokescreen of patriotism before the issues...