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THIS MONTH I LEARNED a new acronym. mort stands for “middle-of-the-road tearjerker”. coda — another acronym, standing for “child of deaf adults” — is the title of the film that won the Oscar for Best Picture. It is supposedly a mort. Leaving aside its particular merits, I feel moved to ponder those tearjerkers that have produced such a reaction in me over the years.
A 1950 Mass-Observation panel of 318 respondents showed that women wept more at the movies than men and