Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general echoed that sentiment at a no-questions press conference the next afternoon. He praised the Italian police effort for its "speed and precision," then added, "When you are on the receiving end of prayers, you sure as hell can feel it." He also presented Judith with a belated Christmas gift: a gold chain with a pendant of the Lion of St. Mark, his headquarters emblem...
...antihandgun sentiment in Morton Grove was latent until an entrepreneur announced last spring that he was opening a gun shop in town. That prospect galvanized the trustees. "I'm just against guns," says Sneider. "It's a deep conviction of mine." Says fellow Village Trustee Neil Cashman, who wrote the law against possession: "I was sick and tired of reading about handgun deaths." Three years ago, a pair of local teenage girls were murdered in a Morton Grove woods, both shot to death with a handgun...
...dreamy indulgence of poetry and humor to the even dreamier of radical politics. Emotion--Lippmann watched Reed rapidly lose touch with the reality of politics and stood by as his friend played himself into a corner of desperation, writing articulate and impassioned articles that precipitated a flurry of romantic sentiment, but little else. And finally, inspiration, for the legend of John Reed was to live on long after even Lippmann's death. "There is a legend of John Reed," Lippmann wrote as early as 1914, and he watched it grow with time. The John Reed clubs of the 1930s captured...
Amid this historical revivalism, one question remains. Do grand edifices promote noble accomplishments? Speaker Brown thinks that they are an inspiration. "In these incredible surroundings," he said, "I suspect that most of us will rise above anything we thought we were capable of doing." That sentiment was echoed by Silversmith Mindermann, who is now working in a sheet-metal shop. "You drive by," he says, "and you look up at it, and you can't help feeling anything but proud...
...only ironic, that the unemployed should take such an uncharitable view of their own ordeal. Actually, they have merely carried into joblessness, and applied to themselves, the attitudes inculcated in them by workaday society. The American view of joblessness has never been overly sympathetic. Pioneer America flaunted its punitive sentiment in a vulgar aphorism: "Root, hog, or die!" While that position has been softened a bit (witness unemployment benefits that have ranged from $9 billion the $19 billion annually in the past few years) in the face of the fact that most of today's idleness is involuntary...