Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of the Labor Party is anti-Market-a sentiment shared by most trade unions. Wilson has said that his duty as leader is to keep the Labor Party united. In an abrasive televised reply to Heath last week, Wilson challenged the EEC entry terms as "too costly." But when the Labor Party meets to discuss the EEC issue later this week, he will still remain astraddle the fence. He may also allow a free vote on the EEC issue in Commons. Wilson is mindful of the tragic case of onetime Labor Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, who split the party...
...Michigan Political Scientist Richard Solomon, Mao made virtues of hostility and aggression, the two human characteristics most deeply suppressed by the Confucian ethic. "The more one hates the old society," Mao reasoned, "the more one will love the party and the new society." Notes Solomon: "Mao believes the intense sentiment of aggression is the only force powerful enough to sustain the involvement of China's peasants and workers in the tasks of social revolution...
...Another mistake, he feels, was failing to institute censorship?not to cover up mistakes, but to prevent the enemy from knowing what the U.S. was going to do next. As for trying to hide the troop buildup, L.B.J.'s rationale is that he was trying to avoid inflaming hawk sentiment in the U.S. and to avoid goading Hanoi into calling on the Communist Chinese for help...
...irony is that this time it is the British who may keep themselves out of the Common Market. British sentiment has turned sharply against a linkup. Aware of the strong antiMarket tide, Heath said last week that he would not submit the entry issue to Parliament until after the summer recess and the annual party conferences in early October. By that time he hopes that an extensive government publicity campaign will have rallied grass-roots support for EEC membership, but it is just as possible that the opposition will have become more deeply entrenched. Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson...
...sentiment in Washington was not undiluted joy either. The treaty must be ratified by a two-thirds majority of the U.S. Senate before it can take effect, probably next year. Some Senators, notably South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Virginia's Harry F. Byrd Jr., have already threatened to oppose ratification unless the Japanese place more stringent controls on their textile exports...