Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Threepenny Opera, the most enduring example of Brecht's epic theater, Brecht shows how closely the capitalist business interests relate to the criminal element. The entrepreneur, J.J. Peachum (Ernest Kearns), trafficks in sentiment. He outfits an army of "the poorest of the poor" with begging clothes and districts of operation. Aware of the efforts required to soften a man's heart to the point where he will part with his money, he believes, "no one can make his own misery sound convincing;" he has built an empire on this statement...
...power base of city liberals; it's here that the CCA finds the bulk of its votes, and it's here that Abt and others like her must do well to win seats on the council. For a long time, this area was the home of "good government" sentiment. The Brattle St. folk, distressed at the fashion which the Irish pols were running the city, formed the CCA in the 1940s, and for a long time the organization was dominated by a sort of Yankee Republicanism, distinguished by a distaste for corruption and a desire for efficiency. With the turbulence...
...snowball was going to roll to change sentiment, it would have rolled yesterday or today," Cranston said...
While he won't win any award nominations for this one (the footloose and fancy image lives on), he touches his audience with the same sentiment and humor that distinguished The Longest Yard, The End, and, especially Starting Over...
...widely anticipated that the commission will not recommend a return to the gold standard. Antigold sentiment runs high in the group. What is more likely, predicts Economist Evans, is that the commission will issue a report that will say essentially nothing, and "after that the whole discussion on gold will go away...