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Colleagues, family, and friends often join in, turning what could be (and, at the New York Times , apparently is) a grim ritual into a festive and sentimental occasion.
But sometimes sentimental politics is merely a way to salve one's conscience when real action is possible and one would prefer to do nothing.
In 1973 Doubleday wisely reissued The Young Visiters , and it got a rave review by Alan Friedman in The New York Times . He called it “a tiny novel that begs comparison with giants: Tolstoy's War and Peace , Flaubert's Sentimental Education , and Lawrence's Women in Love may be bigger, but The Young Visiters too manages to contain and display, more gracefully than the giants, an entire civilization.”
The sentimental spin: It's the heartwarming tale of a golfer who came back to win one of the sport's biggest prizes after being so seriously injured three years ago that he couldn't walk.
It is "a perfectly enjoyable piece of sentimental fiction, straight from those golden days of the 1950s."