Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several of Webster's neighbors said yesterday that the prevailing sentiment in the dorm is one of disbelief, and a few students said they were too upset to speak about her disappearance...
Though the major NATO governments oppose the antimissile movement, they are not blameless. "We believe the Europeans are too timid in dealing with paci fist sentiment," says a Pentagon official. "They see no political rewards for themselves in speaking out on nuclear weapons policy and tend to back away from the debate. These governments have to do it for themselves." Says Christoph Bertram, director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies: "There are a lot of people in West Germany today who would accept a reasonable explanation of why the government believes [defense] is so important. The people...
...enough to kill and be killed a hundred times over again. Their historic experience in this century?unlike America's until Viet Nam?has not been the triumphant use of power but the experience of brute and futile power, blindly spent and blindly worshiped." Even in France, where pacifist sentiment is far less widespread than in other European countries, 63% of those polled consider a war in Europe "imaginable," and 30% thought it could occur in the next five years. hese fears have emerged at a particularly crucial moment. For the first time in NATO'S 32-year history...
Nonetheless, antimissile sentiment began to emerge when the government, led by Republican Prime Minister Spadolini, announced publicly that Italy's contingent of 112 cruise missiles would be based outside the small southern Sicily town of Comiso. Since then, says Marco Fumagalli, 28, a leader of the Communist Youth Federation, the missiles have no longer been a "hypothetical possibility...
...Czechoslovak tale of an apparently dim peasant-soldier who fumbles through World War I, surviving while giving the impression of following orders. Last month 120,000 Finns marched in 54 cities and towns during one of the largest peace demonstrations in the country's history. Even so, pacific sentiment has not taken hold as it has in other Western European countries. Explains a student at the University of Helsinki: "The peace movement in this country has tended to be monopolized by the far left, seen as a thing of Communist propaganda. They talk about peace all the time...