Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of an old Democrat," McCurdy told compatriots. "The result is an administration that has pursued elements of a moderate and liberal agenda at the same time, to the great confusion of the American people." (McCurdy, who got drubbed in a Senate bid this year, blames anti-Clinton sentiment.) But Clinton is trying hard to win back DLC support. He met with key DLC members this afternoon and addresses its 10th annual meeting tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET. TIME White House correspondent James Carney says Clinton's effort suggests he'll embrace some of the centrist issues put forth...
There is no point in pretending that Poussin is an easy painter for today's viewers to get at. He has the disadvantage, for a coarsely expressionist culture, of being incapable of vulgarity or cheap sentiment. His pictures don't reach out across 3 1/2 centuries to diddle your heartstrings. His imagery springs from qualities of feeling and modes of thought that are now almost extinct: educated piety, allegory and complete familiarity not only with the Bible and the Greek and Latin classics from Homer to Ovid, Horace and Plutarch, but also with their Renaissance descendants, such as Tasso...
...ingredients of a full-blown political crisis were gathering last week over Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's fragile coalition government. But none was more threatening than the challenge directed at Berlusconi personally, the tycoon who had been swept into power earlier this year on a tide of anticorruption sentiment. Even as he was host to a U.N. conference in Naples on combatting organized crime, the Prime Minister, once dubbed Il Cavaliere, or the knight, found himself among the knaves as he was formally placed under investigation by magistrates engaged in a bribery probe of Fininvest, his business empire...
Debate over the form of the proposed memorial was heated from the start. According to the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, the committee soon found the strong sentiment against a utilitarian memorial...
...there were certain reservations by panel members in having a discussion in such a political forum as the IOP," Song said. "The sentiment was that the atmosphere was too politically charged and a true discussions might...