Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME bureau chiefs who with the help of 76 local correspondents will report on the five major regions for the 1972 campaign were asked whether Ted could defeat Richard Nixon?with particular emphasis on the residue of Chappaquiddick. Their answers are not a forecast but a reading of present sentiment; any number of factors could change the situation. Nor do these reports attempt to judge other candidates who might do as well or better against Nixon...
They would not be easy for him to net, however, since most went for Nixon last time. Chappaquiddick is a grave liability in much of the Old West, where chivalry is still esteemed. Many a Montanan asks: "How could he leave that little gal alone?" That kind of sentiment is heard most often in strong Republican states, where Kennedy could not expect to win even if there had been no drowning. Here as elsewhere round the U.S., one senses that Chappaquiddick is often used as a rationale for those who never did like Kennedy...
Responsibility for Perk's victory must lie with Mayor Carl Stokes' unsuccessful political maneuvering, maneuvering which only heightened already existing anti-black and anti-Stokes sentiment in the city. For in his bid to gain nationwide political power by demonstrating his ability to weld a citywide coalition of blacks and liberal whites, Stokes committed the cardinal sin of permitting his political vision to become obscured by ego considerations. Stokes grossly overestimated his ability to manipulate the black vote, and his success during the primary in personally crushing his chief tormentors ultimately resulted in the defeat of his chosen successor...
...think his watercolors romantic. His exhibit represents an evocation of a mood and feeling for a region he first visited in childhood and to which he is strongly attached. Nostalgic experience, the longing "to paint myself back into a dreamworld," is a partial motivation. This accounts for an occasional sentimentality in certain pictures. (Appropriate sentiment, Mr. Feild believes, and not in self-defense, is "terribly rare...
Poetic vision and nobility of sentiment were playing last week in a double bill at the Brattle...