Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offer two-bedroom houses starting at $18,000, plus a refuge from urban violence, the black problem (and in fact blacks), as well as generational pressures. "I'm glad to see my children come and I'm glad to see the back of their heads," is a commonly expressed sentiment. Says Dr. James Birren of the University of Southern California: "The older you get the more you want to live with people like yourself. You want, to put it bluntly, to die with your...
...their editorial began, "is a game for gentlemen" and, in the great scheme of the American consensus, beating up peaceful by-standers, however long-haired, is not gentlemanly conduct. The Globe is not racist, for racism is tinged with something dirty and vile here in the heart of Union sentiment in the Civil War. It is for law and order. The difference is subtle, but the Globe is proud...
Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a backslid free trader, shrewdly senses the rise of protectionist sentiment among politically potent forces. The bill, which Mills expects to report out by month's end, would impose mandatory quotas on imports of foreign shoes and synthetic and wool textiles. Furthermore, it would force President Nixon to continue curbing oil imports by a quota system, rather than replace the quotas with a less restrictive tariff. The oil deal was wrapped up in eight minutes. Even that might be only the beginning. An omnibus provision authorizes the President to put quotas...
...disagree. Two weekends of rioting left a dozen dead, more than 300 wounded and at least 100 buildings destroyed. This week 100,000 Protestants are expected to march throughout the country in parades of the Orange Order, a religious-fraternal society that has been a seedbed of anti-Catholic sentiment for generations. More trouble seems virtually certain...
...Casualty. Then, abruptly and even as the last few treasures were being crated for shipment, the great show became a casualty of Middle Eastern tensions. In the U.S., pro-Israeli sentiment had been inflamed by the suspected Arab sabotage of an Israel-bound jet, France's visiting President Pompidou had been booed and picketed because his government had closed off military aid to Israel. Rumors spread through the art world that the Met's director, Thomas Hoving, was about to withdraw the Met's support on the ground that he could not assure the safety...