Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President. He vowed that the price ceiling will be maintained "as long as is necessary to do the job." Housewives immediately questioned whether the ceiling would work; they urged a rollback of prices as well. Farmers thought that they were being victimized. Iowa Farmer Donald Gerhardt echoed the common sentiment: "The farmer is being singled out to fight inflation and take the whole loss...
...White House is quite cold-bloodedly clear about its plans for the farm of the future. It emphatically does not subscribe to the notion that inefficient farmers must be kept on the land for the sake of tradition. Not for Nixon or Butz or Shultz the sentiment of the English poet Oliver Goldsmith: "But a bold peasantry, their country's pride/ When once destroyed can never be supplied." "Farming isn't a way of life," says Butz. "It's a way to make a living." He regards as inevitable the growing consolidation of farms, while marginal ones...
...couple of weeks-he's just taking a vacation with Judge Thatcher and Becky-but the kind of minds who find it natural and necessary to turn Tom Sawyer into a musical cannot be expected to resist topping their concoction with a thick glop of Reddi-wip sentiment...
Something he should do less is claim the uniqueness of his insights. His theory, as presented, is unique in its structure. But underneath that structure lies a sentiment, which Marx expressed best over 130 years ago. Unfulfilling labor, he wrote, "alienates from man his own body, external nature, his mental life and his human life." When a psychologist develops a theory of real needs, of the relationship between social needs and individual needs, and understands the relationship between changing feeling on a personal level and consciousness on a social level, a revolution may begin to move forward. Whether the revolution...
THERE are those who say that law and order are just code words for repression and bigotry. That is dangerous nonsense. Law and order are code words for goodness and decency in America." So spoke President Nixon as he explained his new crime initiatives. It was a purely Nixonian sentiment, grounded on his belief that he and the majority of Americans were resonating to the same moral pitch...