Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...fuzzy minded conservative, Dos Passos wrote the original novels while a fuzzy-minded liberal, and the play sometimes verges on the sentimental glorification of the sordid and false that fuzzy-mindedness may produce. However, a coolly ironical detachment saves most of the script from mushiness, and provides a background for emotion-packed events that enables us to accept their content as sentiment, rather than sentimentality...
That was the simple outline of the play; what made it exceptional, as played by an excellent cast including Mildred Dunnock, was the unpretentious directness with which Edwin Cranberry's short story reached the TV screen. If at times too deliberate, the show was neither sentimental nor afraid of sentiment, skillfully played on the viewers' emotions with the cool, sweet memory of an earlier trip to Czardis when the father was still strong and happy; with the boys' childish, poignant attempt to find a present they can take to him; above all, with the wrenching contrast between...
...bearing and his demeanor during the recent and current debacles of the summit blowup and the furor in Japan recall to many a U.S. heart, I am sure, a sentiment that Confucius approvingly ascribes to his pupil Tseng Ts'an: "In a moment of crisis he remains unshaken: Is such a man a Great...
...such a decisive superiority become less. In any case, it is quite clear that the attitude in the world at large up to now has been one of awe at the power possessed by both sides. There has not been any serious sign of a 'bandwagon' sentiment among neutrals or others to fall in with an obviously and inevitably superior Communist side...
...nightmare that follows is expertly gothic, but the nausea never disappears. Little should be said of the plot-Hitchcock enjoins all viewers to be silent-except that Anthony Perkins, who plays an amateur taxidermist, is sickeningly involved, and that a blow is dealt to mother love from which that sentiment may not recover. Director Hitchcock bears down too heavily in this one, and the delicate illusion of reality necessary for a creak-and-shriek movie becomes, instead, a spectacle of stomach-churning horror...