Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sentiment for Bynum...
LaFarge said that Bynum is an extremely popular tutor in Dunster House, and that there is strong sentiment in favor of making her the next Master...
...strongly opposed to Dr. Martin Kilson's proposal to the faculty that joint concentration be mandatory for Afro-American Studies concentrators. Although this proposal was defeated, the narrow margin of the vote (69-66) indicates that there is strong sentiment in favor of this measure. Kilson argues that joint concentration would enable concentrators to learn a "discipline." If taken seriously, the vague notion of "discipline" could be a crippling factor to both students and the department...
...EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, the film directed by Paul Newman adapted from Paul Zindel's play, takes a typically fifties subject--a middle-aged widow trapped in a ghetto of emotional frustration--and dresses it up in typically fifties sentiment. The movie is a plea for the Blanche du Bois and Amandas of the world, victims of rat-racing commercial America. The American Theater has wallowed under a deluge of such stuff for 20 years; the dialogue sounds like a rerun William Inge or Tennessee Williams, and the movie watches like a Blue Monday...
Segel said that he doesn't know what chance his bill has of passing. He added, "There is, however, sentiment in the Legislature to pass a [newsmen's] bill...