Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is more sentiment in the House for Rep. Paleologos' plan," Cambridge's delegate to the House. Majority Leader Rep. Charles Flaherry. He explained that representatives wanted local school committees to have more control over their money...
...show of antiabortion sentiment came at a time of increasing militancy by the movement. Recent months have seen a record number of bombings, as well as instances of arson and harassment, at abortion centers. Pro-choice supporters, fearing more of the same last week, organized protective vigils at some 30 clinics around the country. Reagan again disavowed antiabortion extremists, urging a "complete rejection of violence as a means of settling this issue." His endorsement of the marchers was more qualified than it first seemed: a White House spokesman said Reagan still favored abortions when a mother's life ! is threatened...
...threatens to push interest rates higher and stunt growth. Says Hugh Johnson, a portfolio strategist for First Albany, a securities brokerage firm: "People went to sleep about the deficit, but they will probably wake up to it this year." Johnson is also skeptical of the current wave of bullish sentiment: "When the prevailing view is one of near unanimous optimism, that is when you have got to be extremely careful...
...second place, libertarian militarists--at least in Massachusetts, where the bench I was sitting on is located--are a minority. And therefore, to be effective, libertarian militarists must present a cogent., coherent, obviously persuasive dogma. Liberals in Massachusetts can trust in a wave of popular sentiment among the Commonwealth's Volvo-drivers and Burger King employees to absolve them of forensic shortcomings. Hence the viability of "ConserviTives Suck" as political propaganda...
...poignance to the King's credo: "Every day I try to live another day . . . Every day I do my best for one more day." But his strength as a performer, if not as a presence, seems sapped. The music in each line of dialogue has become a jingle, a sentiment not so much spoken as marketed; then comes a pause for laughter or applause or just mute admiration. In the show's wonderfully discreet mating ritual, Shall We Dance?, his new Anna (Mary Beth Peil) looks nearly to be carrying Brynner around the stage. They are working gamely to erase...