Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...placing the national police force on Grade A alert. The heightened security was ostensibly a precaution against a sudden attack by an unknown new regime in the north. Some observers suspect, however, that the government in Seoul was actually mounting a show of strength to rally domestic political sentiment. Moreover, South Korea's Defense Department could not produce any recordings of the loudspeaker announcements, which apparently had not been made in areas of the DMZ patrolled by U.S. troops. A government spokesman explained this lacuna by claiming that official policy is "not to disclose how any intelligence matter was obtained...
...fiscal issues the Democrats will probably introduce the sort of restrictive trade legislation that Reagan vetoed last year. Even though the trade deficit is declining, many Senate candidates tapped a vein of protectionist sentiment during the campaign this year, and are sure to push for higher tariffs and quotas on foreign manufactured products and textiles...
...serious about trying to create sentiment in public and in Congress for [impeachment proceedings]," said Bonifaz. "We are serious about trying to impeach the President...
...over responsibility for Arab affairs from the dovish Ezer Weizmann. Labor's first Health Minister refused to serve under Shamir; his replacement is inevitably more hawkish. And Zevulun Hammer was chosen by the National Religious Party to replace the long-tenured Yosef Burg, reflecting the general merger of religious sentiment and extreme nationalism, expressed in its most alarming form by Member of Knesset Meir Kahane...
...story of the 1986 elections. The change in Senate control probably will have important consequences for Ronald Reagan in particular, and the course of public policy in general. But the political and governmental consequences of elections often occur against a backdrop of little underlying change in electoral sentiment. That is the real story of 1986, a story unlikely to get much play in the wave of postelection commentary...