Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibit stays up much longer, the pressure of alumni sentiment will probably make it as permanent a fixture as Memorial Hall. Lamont librarians must act fast in removing it; its benign presence is fast becoming as pernicious a part of the library's spell as the bright oak wood-work and the hum of the fluorescent lights...
...time had come for Arabs, with much bussing and holding of hands, to prove that they are all brothers-a ceremonial which involves increased fervor on the occasions when the sentiment is least true...
More interesting than the predictable was the anti-Eisenhower sentiment that welled up outside the South. While the overwhelming majority of U.S. editors agreed that Orval Faubus left Eisenhower no choice but to use force to preserve the integrity of the nation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), several influential dailies outside the South looked at Eisenhower's motives with a new brand of cynicism that lacked even the compulsion of Southern war wounds. Indiana's biggest paper, Eugene C. Pulliam's right-wing Indianapolis Star, accused the President of "a deliberate effort to placate the Negro vote." The ordinarily...
Germany, economically powerful and militarily vigorous, is practically convinced that re-unification will never occur under the aegis of the U.S. Despite the overwhelming re-approval of Adenauer, sentiment grows that Germany will eventually have to reach an agreement of her own with the Kremlin in order to effect reunification. The Adenauer election, perhaps primarily a result of emotional stimuli, is not total assurance of Germany's full diplomatic cooperation with the West...
Bess Truman expressed a popular sentiment: in frustration at the continued defiance of the U.S. Government by Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Eugene Faubus, the cry echoed across the land for the Eisenhower Administration to "do something." But the emotional swelling ignored a central point: the Administration was indeed doing something -as it should be done. It was keeping the issue of Little Rock integration off the political stump and in the courts of the U.S. There last week Orval Faubus lost the showdown...