Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merits of telephone transcripts, the Greatest Show on TV is moving into its third week. Crawling through points of order, irrelevancies, and grandstand speeches, the McCarthy-Army controversy has become unpopular both to a large share of its semi-captive audience and some of the principles involved. A growing sentiment, represented by Senator McCarthy when he called it "a fight over a private in the Army," teamed with his frequent allusions to "razors near America's jugular vein" have resulted in considerable pressure to cut short the hearings...
...obstructing traffic." Newspapers and magazines devoted considerable space to these "antics." At their trials the women delivered passionate orations on behalf of liberty and woman suffrage: they also refused to pay their fines "as a matter of principle" and were there upon hustled off to the workhouse. Public sentiment swelled in resentment of the government's suppressing tactics and in sympathy for the women's sacrifices...
Johnson C. Montgomery '55, Eliot's Social Committee chairman, said Monday that Finley had influenced him to oppose the prevailing House sentiment, which is in favor of a dance. "The Social Committee and the House as a whole would like to have some social function that Friday," he said, "but the House Administration has indicated that it desires 'we refrain from any organized activity...
Finley yesterday declined to state his objections to the dance, but maintained that "there is not much sentiment in favor...
...great religions, whatever their differences, acknowledge a belief in God as the father and creator of mankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command. Others may be moved to brotherhood only by sentiment. We acknowledge brotherhood as a religious duty...