Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sandinista rhetoric about the U.S. and the contra threat remains as shrill as ever. But as U.S. pressure has intensified, so has a deep sense of demoralization and frustration within Nicaragua that affects even the secretive Sandinista leadership. Among many Nicaraguans, there is a growing sentiment that their country faces an economic and military debacle that can be blamed as much on the Sandinistas as on the Reagan Administration-or even more. Says a prominent former F.S.L.N. supporter in the capital: "The one big difference these days is that people everywhere are now saying the Sandinistas are through...
Wacker echoed this sentiment, adding that it would be advantageous for the Master and the Senior Tutor to "get started together...
...Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said yesterday that there was "strong sentiment in the Faculty not to reintroduce these kinds of matters into the Ad board...
Reagan's China trip is but another chapter in his how-to book on leadership by image manipulation. The President survives a bomb attack in Lebanon by invading Grenada, tempers anti-interventionist sentiment in El Salvador by staging marginally democratic election there, and turns the tables on criticism of his terrorist policies in Nicaragua by announcing a stepped-up anti-terrorist policy himself. Now China, but if you close your eyes, you can make it go away...
...next incidence of folly was also caused by deafness to grassroots sentiment. Perhaps the Renaissance popes can be excused, Tuchman argues, surrounded as they were by the trappings of their office. But British parliamentarians, who pioneered the system of representative government, should have listened to the "common man" when he called from America for representation. Americans protesting the Stamp Act had no ideas of breaking away from English rule; they just found it unfair to be taxed without a voice...