Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis for a sound policy. But if we expect it to be applied in the form of a "plebiscite" sponsored by the UN, we will be disappointed. Plebiscites are not an old Chinese custom. The Nationalist government on Taiwan is a sovereign power in law and in its own sentiment and view of itself. It would not permit the UN to come in and stage a referendum; nor would it be desirable to let in an outside group of UN observers including Communist representatives...
...response was quite different from what many politicos and editors have been clattering about for weeks. They had produced a picture of overwhelming sentiment in favor of a policy change on Red China, overwhelming disagreement with the U.S. The general council of the United Church of Canada called for admitting Red China to the U.N.; politicians took to the stump to attack...
Throughout the Bible Belt only a handful of pulpits ring with talk about the brotherhood of man-if brotherhood implies sitting together in a schoolroom. Pro-segregation sentiment is strongest in the areas where the rooted religion is Baptist and where the pentecostal sects flourish...
...served as a means by which student protests have reached the Administration. Those days are gone forever. Deans who believe they are helping students are not likely to listen to their troubles. Whatever influence the Council once had with the Administration as a student organization representing student sentiment will have been exchanged for the confines of financial security...
...vote this week may well be the first "honest" election ever held in Algeria. But, after four years of war and reprisals, attacks and counterattacks, terrorism and torture, it seems likely that the dominant sentiment of the Moslems will not be reason or political passion, but fear-fear of voting yes or no, fear of not voting yes or no, fear of not voting...