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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.”
Among the performer nominations, the critics' sentimental favorites are aging actors staging comebacks--Peter Fonda ( Ulee's Gold ), Burt Reynolds ( Boogie Nights ), Robert Duvall ( The Apostle).
However, Bradley adduces evidence that they were quite good with numbers and were overly sentimental about their mothers.
that revels in the irony of a sentimental illustrator, so long contemptuously dismissed by critics, being installed in the American artistic pantheon.
Because sentimental politics can be a way to fob off rhetorical solutions on people demanding practical ones.