Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staff woke up one morning-if it had ever gone to bed-to find that the paper had survived for fifty years and appeared inordinately healthy. The New York Evening-Post called the Crime "a very fine and highgrade expression of the best student sentiment," while Mother Advocate, thinking back to the days when the paper was an upstart literary magazine, observed, "If the child is father to the man, the two are often strangely dissimilar...
...will prosecute the war. "Premise No. 1," says a member of the Administration in Washington, "is that nobody knows anything about what will happen now?and if they say they do, they are lying." There is little doubt that Ho's departure will have a profound effect. Accordingly, the sentiment among many responsible officials in Washington is to "let the dust settle," in Dean Acheson's unforgettable words on China in 1949, rather than to seize the initiative. There are, however, other alternatives. At the extremes, the U.S. could either step up the war and resume the bombing...
...they continue to gun down his strategy of a phased, orderly U.S. disengagement, the President might be forced to choose between other alternatives-either a precipitous exit that would gravely unnerve Washington's other Asian allies, or a no-holds-barred military policy that would exacerbate antiwar sentiment in the U.S. He must avoid the appearance of either a bug-out or intransigence. Without some cooperation from Hanoi, however, the U.S. may find itself hard put to avoid one or the other of those unappealing alternatives...
...conservationists were nature lovers and esthetes who often seemed devoted to fencing off nature for themselves. Today's ecologists are scientists who know that all nature is interconnected and that any intervention has far-reaching effects. They are moved to action not only by considerations of beauty and sentiment but also by growing knowledge of the possibly disastrous consequences of unthinking intervention. The need for their expert opinions is being increasingly felt in Congress, the regulatory agencies and corporations, giving them an influence that promises to match or surpass that of the outspoken atomic scientists...
...strong is the sentiment for tax revision that the House would not consider the extension bill until President Nixon promised to send up a reform program later this year. Even with Nixon's pledge, the margin was an almost invisible five votes. The Democratic leadership in the Senate was less trusting. Reform, the leaders reasoned, means one thing to them, another to a President who during the campaign favored retention of the oil-depletion allowance-one of the chief targets of the reformers. Their other goals include a minimum income tax to eliminate the anomaly of some millionaires...