Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first of these bills to come close to a vote, the textile measure is a kind of test case of protectionist sentiment. Present outlook: some version of it will sail through both chambers of Congress; after all, bipartisan majorities of both House and Senate have signed on as co-sponsors. Reagan will veto it, repeating dire warnings that U.S. protectionism could once again provoke foreign retaliation against what remains of American exports (which is plenty: the U.S. is still the world's biggest exporter by 27% over runner-up West Germany). Such retaliation is what happened after Congress passed...
Such defensiveness would have seemed unlikely a few weeks ago. Not since Smoot-Hawley days had Washington witnessed such an explosion of demand to limit imports as occurred in August and early September. Fretted Sir Roy Denman, Ambassador of the European Community to Washington: "We have seen protectionist sentiment before, but never anything like this...
...Capitol Hill there is some sentiment for limiting SDI appropriations. That lingering skepticism found new support last week in a study published by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. The 325-page report on missile defenses concluded that SDI would not produce an effective shield for U.S. population centers. While Star Wars weaponry could protect missile sites to a considerable extent, actual deployment on both sides, unless governed by a Soviet-American treaty, might increase the temptation of one nation to strike first. "There is great uncertainty," the analysts said, "about the strategic situation that would arise...
...spirited performances by CoOrganizer John Cougar Mellencamp, Bonnie Raitt, Loretta Lynn and Emmylou Harris, and an incendiary set by Bob Dylan, whose remarks at Live Aid about American farm troubles, says Nelson, "put the idea (for FarmAid) in my head." Perhaps the fleetest combination of hard music and solid sentiment came during John Fogerty's appearance, his first before a paying audience since 1972. After playing two songs from his new album, and before launching into a drop-dead version of the R.-and-B. classic Knock on Wood, Fogerty simply reminded the enthusiastic audience of 78,000, "The next...
...your printing of my letter on September 30th, one little mistake changed the entire sense and sentiment of my concluding paragraph. My penultimate sentence reads, "Should Harvard then put its weight behind the political aspirations of the Black majority, or will it remain the discreet quisling of the Boer regime?" The Crimson, by substituting "Bok" for "Boer," is replacing my focus on a hegemonic group and putting attention on an individual. This is exactly the historical gestalt my letter opposes. I do not equate Harvard University with the "Bok regime" (whatever that is). The administration is not Harvard University. Students...