Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toughening approach toward Israel, the U.S. and the Camp David peace process. Vows a senior Egyptian official: "Egypt will not participate in the Palestinian autonomy talks again until the complete withdrawal from Lebanon by Israel." Pushed by a rising tide of anti-American and anti-Israeli popular sentiment, Mubarak is determined to win real concessions in exchange for future cooperation. Says a Western diplomat in Cairo: "He is consumed with the need to keep ahead of his domestic critics and be viewed in Egyptian opinion as doing his utmost...
...cannot understand why world sentiment is against Israel. The nation is finally responding to continuous attacks against its border towns. And the P.L.O.? They hide behind innocent civilians. The blame for these casualties lies solely with Arafat, who sets up shop in urban ghettos...
...their eyes. This anxiety is the root of a "radical centrism" among Middle Americans--a revolutionary mood that makes Main Street susceptible to populistic appeals for "decency" and to promises of a mythical good old days restored. Ronald Reagan's skillful campaign rhetoric articulated and capitalized upon the "restorationist" sentiment...
...contradictions--regional, cultural, racial, religious, and ideological. Nowhere is this basic flaw in their analysis more evident than in Piven and Cloward's dismissal of Reagan's appeal to "traditional values" as a corporate ruse. Rather, Reaganism is a very real evocation of long-standing American right-populist political sentiment...
...Carter backed a softening of federal laws. But by the late '70s the mood began to swing back. With an estimated 60% of high school seniors having tried pot, and the drug making inroads at elementary schools, frightened parents dissuaded legislators from further liberalization. In step with this sentiment, the Reagan Administration's firm antidrug stance includes pot. Says Dr. Carlton Turner, the President's chief narcotics policy adviser: "There are 60,000 people under the age of 18 in this country who require some kind of treatment for marijuana each year...