Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Captain Youssarian to life in the film adaptation of the novel. Heller's powerful anti-war statement became widely known and appreciated. In his two act play. We Bombed in New Haven. Heller continues to hammer in his theme almost to the point of cliche. This time, however, the sentiment is not searing, but tepid, and the South House Drama Society's production adds little emotional energy...
...fluid, intense interactions between characters, and Jennings never lets excessive motions detract from the power of the character's language. In his two productions last year Enemy of the People and The Mother. Jennings let extreme political leftism overshadow the acting. But in this play, Jennings has cast political sentiment aside and concentrated his attentions on accentuating the fineness of the acting...
Peretz describes his views on foreign policy as "old-fashioned liberal sentiment...
...Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) stayed in the March coalition and worked to keep the visibility of anti-Israel sentiment to a minimum. At the same time, it helped bring B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Congress around to endorsing the March. This is the correct position for Jewish groups: to work within left-wing coalitions, influencing and convincing others. By isolating themselves in a hyper-critical stance. Jews can only bring upon themselves the image of a self-interested and single-issue pressure group. By working on the inside, the UAHC prevented the March from being...
...Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi said that his government "can only disapprove this decision," and added that the U.S. intervention "has dangerous precedents and also establishes another dangerous precedent." In back of all West European minds seemed to be a concern that the sudden U.S. action might add to sentiment against the controversial deployment of U.S.-built Pershing II and cruise missiles on their continent, due to begin in December...