Word: sentimentalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll will be drawn up by the Council's Student Welfare Committee in consultation with Social Relations department poll experts and with representatives of Bender and vice-President Reynolds. The survey may discard traditional "yes" and "no" methods and instead sample undergraduate sentiment by means of personal interviews...
...Sonata, a breathless incredulity came over every listener. In the Presto of the Partita in B Minor, his fingers literally clicked over the strings, picking out every sixteenth note, even giving each a slight vibrate. Loveliest of all was the Andante of the last work. Schneider never overdid the sentiment, and the steady beat of the pedal point through the melody held the music to a moving, but ever-calm reserve...
...Guns. From the time the news of his impending birth had first been made public (TIME, March 15), a wave of sentiment, curling into sentimentality, had traveled across the English-speaking world. Early last week an impressionable housewife of Elizabeth, N.J. dreamed that Britain's Elizabeth had had a boy, and woke her husband and three children in the dead of night to tell them about it. When the news reached Australia, electric carillons pealed in Sydney and Melbourne. Next morning, in London, the bells of St. Paul's, Westminster and many another church rang out in clangorous...
...sentiment of undergraduates is of importance in this matter, the committee can perform a valuable service by devising a system that will provide needed counsel for the student without robbing him of the maturity and ability to make decisions that come from his current responsibility for his own destiny at Harvard...
What did the elections mean? Though not a completely accurate reflection of popular sentiment, they confirmed significant trends: 1) the continuing upsurge of Gaullist strength; 2) a mild revival of the Radical Socialists, the nearest French approximation to U.S. Republicans; 3) the decline of the Communists; and 4) the final collapse of the M.R.P...