Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whitman, Mark Twain, Browning, Grimm, Schiller and Turgenev-all subversive influences, in the Peronista view. "A repulsive state of affairs," declared the governor. He named a committee to scourge the foreign authors from the schoolbooks. "The schools," he decreed, "must teach the child the mysticism, the soul and the sentiment of Peronismo...
...that morning, the Minnesota delegation had met in caucus with Harold Stassen, favorite-son candidate to whom 24 of its 28 members were pledged. The delegation's loyalties, going back to the days before 1948 when Stassen was still a Minnesota hero, had become strained. There was strong sentiment for Eisenhower, who had rolled up an impressive write-in vote of 106,946 in the Minnesota primary. It was clear to most delegates that Stassen had no chance for the nomination, but Stassen was sharply disappointed about what he considered defections. When one delegate told Stassen not to rely...
...Taft derides the polls. A delegate who agrees with him must fall back on the only other method ever devised of forecasting candidate strength. That method is to add up the opinions of the pols-the practical politicians-on how public sentiment stands in their localities...
...think your article overlooked the very pronounced pro-Taft sentiment here in the Deep South . . . We know what we have in Taft; he's an intellectual and a gentleman. General Eisenhower may have glamour-but we had enough of that in the days of F.D.R...
...spring of '37 Conant notified the Economics Department that only one of the three men up for promotion could get permanent positions. As fate had it, the two men given notice. Alan Sweezey and J. Raymond Walsh, were the two outspoken liberals in the department. All the anti-Conant sentiment of the time was unleashed, with the extreme left leading the pack with shouts of "academic freedom." Denounced on this ground. Conant only dug himself in deeper when he stated that the decision was reached solely "on the basis of teaching capacity and scholarly ability." Since both the men were...