Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the entire FBI took a "bum rap" because of blunders by Gray and the Department of Justice in the Watergate investigation. Almost to a man, agents argue that Nixon is trying to gain control of the agency for his own purposes and to "politicize" it. Echoing a common sentiment, one high-ranking agent says: "Nobody wants to work for a political hack." And, he adds, the retirements will grow to a mass exodus if the President picks another political appointee to head the bureau...
...twin German traditions of folk and high art. Goebbels' cameramen, filming the gnarled peasants at work or the shiny, hopeful faces of village children baking festive rolls in the shape of swastikas, were building on the most popular traditions of 19th century German genre painting-that volkisch sentiment that was Germany's equivalent to America's image of frontier virtue. One sequence says it all: a choir singing carols beneath a light-baubled Christmas tree in a village square. The camera tilts up, slowly and lovingly, to reveal a huge illuminated swastika on top of the tree...
Then and Nowsucceeds in conveying the strengths of country music--the feel of good times, the directness of sentiment, the considerable energy and warmth of performances too lively to sound static, but too intricate to be completely improvised. The two main disappointments in the album are its length and range. Both sides combined add up to less than a half hour of music, and none of the songs are triumphs as unusual or moving as Doc Watson's earlier rendition of Gershwin's "Summertime" or as instrumentally demanding as the classic "Black Mountain...
This year it's the same ole story. Princeton wins its first three races and starts talking about beating Harvard. Well, Harvard hasn't lost to Princeton since 1957, and if the sentiment around Newell Boat House is any indication, there isn't about to be a change in that trend...
Although public sentiment today seems to be moving toward the humanization of the institutionalizing process, technology seems to be veering in the opposite direction, toward a more dehumanizing goal. One thing that has emphatically not changed, however is professional attitudes towards retardation and especially towards Mongolism. And what this means is that Mongoloid children may be, in ever increasing numbers, the victims of a society that finds it easier to bury its problems than to deal with them...