Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November finale. Unlike most in Cambridge, the men and women of West Point rely heavily on the regular rhythm of weekend confrontation merely to make it through the other six days. "It can get pretty gray here in the fall, pretty gloomy," says sophomore Daryl Smith, voicing a common sentiment...
...impeachment of activist Chief Justice Earl Warren were commonplace. But to allow anger at the courts to grow into political action that would disable them could prove extremely perilous. What needs to be remembered is why the federal courts so frequently go against the grain of popular sentiment. More often than not they are doing what they, alone among U.S. institutions, were designed to do: safeguarding the fundamental rights of the individual against the potentially tyrannical attitudes of the majority. -By Frank Trippett
This summer's baseball strike, like all strikes, had its foibles, not the least of which was an average worker's salary of more than $140,000. But the perception of the players--that, somenow, profit-mongering magnates meant to deprice them of their rights--mirrors a sentiment spreading among American worker most of whom live closer to the economic margin...
Like Garp, the new book is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice. Unlike Garp, Hotel aggressively links realism with the tone and symbolism of fable. Imagine a fairy tale dealing explicitly with rape, incest, prostitution and terrorism. Imagine the Brothers Grimm without the dense mythological overlay...
...cover ourselves with glory." The very thought would sound like romantic nonsense to much of Western Europe, which today is being swept by a new wave of pacifism and neutralism. This sentiment, combined with economic strains within the alliance (all too evident at the Ottawa summit in late July), long-building political tensions, and the palpable growth of Soviet power, has brought the West once again to deep doubt about the future of NATO...