Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human animal. Everyman is a poor subject. There is compromise in the very act of shooting a person as if he or she were "really the same as me"; it means a flattening of human experience, a generality that amounts to well-meant condescension. In brief, it is sentiment. In her passion for "not evading facts, not evading what it really looks like," Diane Arbus became perhaps the least sentimental photographer who ever caught a face in the view finder. She refused to generalize. There was no family, and the unshared particularity of her subjects was recorded...
...race. But once the foot-shuffling of late July had taken place, McGovern had lost the heart place, McGovern had lost the heart of his appeal. According to Kearns, "The only real chance the Democrats had of winning was to play on a deep-rooted anti-political sentiment. The sixties had produced a revulsion against politics, and if McGovern had stood against traditional politics, he might have found a close affiliation with people. But 'above politics' would have required courage to think outside the rules of the game...
...would attract only self-aggrandizing former high school pols. In this, critics tend to ignore that prestige and graduate school recognition accrue to members of student-Faculty committees as well. For this reason the current structure is not likely to be better than more traditional organizations in representing student sentiment...
There are two main reasons for the anti-McGovern sentiment: the scholars feel that McGovern is incompetent, principally on the basis of his troubles with his campaign staff; and they believe that the foreign policies that McGovern advocates would precipitate a sharp decline in the international strategic power and influence of the United States...
...Perhaps the most marked sentiment among voters is a waning of enthusiasm for the presidential campaign itself. Traditionally, citizens become more interested in a campaign as Election Day nears. This year the reverse seems true. At the start of the campaign in July, 46% of the voters said that they were "very interested" in following the proceedings. Now only 39% remained that interested, with the major shift taking place in mid-October. Significantly, the greatest apathy was among Nixon voters and the undecided...