Word: sentimentality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...glare of TV lights, Senators who might normally be inclined to slip in an amendment or two to protect favored interest groups instead extolled the virtues of tax fairness as they preened for the folks back home. With public sentiment already riled by the influence-peddling scandal surrounding former White House Aide Michael Deaver, it was an inopportune time for lawmakers to appear beholden to lobbyists on the evening news. As Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole dryly warned his colleagues last week, "I wouldn't want to be offering any tax breaks...
Asked last week on television whether he thought graduating collegians paid attention to a commencement address, William F. Buckley, a perennial favorite to speak at these rites, replied no. Rather he saw it as "a kind of a final obstacle to their emancipation." The sentiment was shared by New York Governor Mario Cuomo, surely one of the most popular graduation speakers (over 100 invitations), who told the class of '86 at the State University of New York at Albany, where one of his daughters was graduating, "Today's challenge is mostly to avoid embarrassing Madeline...
...years since the war, innumerable stories of operations and individual heroism (as well as some blunders) have found a way into print. Yet many old-timers reunited last week agreed with the sentiment of James Murphy, 81, OSS chief of counterintelligence. Said he: "The true facts of our accomplishments were never fully disclosed and explained." Georgetown University Professor Ray Cline, who went on from the OSS to become a CIA deputy director, said much the same, adding, "We want to get it all down before...
...story only goes so far. For all the new attempts to solicit student opinion, this year has seen no slackening in an old and very different trend. The University continues a tradition of secrecy in student disciplinary matters. It proved itself to be adroit at manhandling student sentiment through the ill-conceived South Africa internship program...
During the weeks when scholars began discussing Safran's links to the CIA, Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies Nur O. Yalman warned that a perceived connection between the University and the CIA would make Harvard scholars working in the Middle East inviting targets for anti-American sentiment...