Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guard units are part of the middle American class that finds demonstrators as destructive of American society as Communists. They resent students, who they feel make up the mass of street protestors. In their instructions about riots they clearly display their dislike, and thus encourage a dangerous sentiment among...
...intended for Back Bay is Bill Jacobson's wall-long relief sculpture for the side of a building. Made of pieces like old railroad ties and used industrial lumber, its strong vertical and horizontal lines recall the rectilinear urban grid of the area. And the material corroborates the Populist sentiment that "wood is good"-a needed counterpoint for an increasingly steel city...
Last week Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed two bills banning the sale of certain rare furs and hides in New York State. Manhattan Furrier Jacques Kaplan is keeping in step with public sentiment by showing mink furs treated to look like tiger and leopard skins in his fall collection. On the other hand, worried about the country's new environmental awareness, David Klapisch, vice president of Southern Trading Corp. (reptiles), complains that "conservation is good, but there has to be a limit...
Going to the Well. The Administration had helped to fuel such sentiment. After failing to make a convincing case that South Vietnamese forces would withdraw from Cambodia along with American units by July 1, the Administration began to retreat from even that prediction last week. If, said Laird, South Vietnamese troops have to "clean out" the Communist sanctuaries again, he would not rule out the use of U.S. air and logistic support. Yet in Nixon's May 8 press conference, when he said that he "would expect" Saigon's troops to withdraw at the same time U.S. forces...
...display of pro-Nixon sentiment was impressive, and the patriotic fervor was sincere. Yet the street rallies of the hardhats in New York City are complicated by their animosity toward campus protesters and long-haired youths, their fear of inflation and recession, their political grudges against Mayor Lindsay. Union leaders rarely have any difficulty in turning out big crowds−especially on a spring day and at full pay. But more significantly, blue-collar workers are apparently discovering, as countless college students have found, that there is a certain satisfaction in the camaraderie of expressing feelings en masse...