Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trivial but telling; others seem to reflect yet another shift in the national mood and the social mode. If the signs are to be believed-and sociologists are sure to debate their significance-the cool-hip chic that has held sway since the 1960s, with its scorn of sentiment and its do-your-own-thing code, is giving way gradually to something suspiciously like a new romanticism. Says Psychologist Sol Gordon, professor of child and family studies at Syracuse University: "Americans no longer want to be cool; they want...
...pronounced American yen for romanticism and sentiment has surfaced intermittently in one place or another for several years now, but it is finally blooming in virtually every zone of the social spectrum, in folkways and cultivated appetites, among middlebrows and highbrows alike. Take America's dance floors-often a useful symbol of how people view themselves...
Unfortunately, that sentiment is a luxury for more than 6 million Americans-mostly blacks and Hispanics, women and youths-who are unemployed. Pressure from imports in many industries, notably steel, clothing and electronics, threatens more jobs. Along with rising cries for protectionism, there are some encouraging attempts at selfhelp. The shutdown of an old Youngstown Steel plant devastated that Ohio city, but municipal leaders and Youngstown Steel employees have begun a search for a new owner and are investigating a plan to take over the plant and operate it as a community-owned enterprise...
...Meany has told associates that the leadership of the United Mine Workers is inept. He also figures that the two-to three-month inventory of coal that has been stockpiled by utilities and steel companies will enable the operators to hold out until the union eventually knuckles under, a sentiment shared by the coal companies. The 165,000 striking union members, mostly in Appalachia, account for only half the nation's coal production. There are growing numbers of nonunion miners, largely in the West, and most will keep right on working...
...been beaming that message at Japan for months. In September, Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps visited Tokyo and warned of growing protectionist sentiment in the U.S. A few weeks later in Washington, Vice President Walter Mondale shocked a group of Japanese politicians. They interpreted Mondale's remarks as constituting a charge that Fukuda had lied when he pledged a reduction in the trade surplus...