Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the team may take some time to gel as an effective unit. Munro feels Harvard's number three ranking is as misleading as the "rebuilding" label "Primarily our ranking was pure sentiment," he said "based on last year's finish in Miami...
...social background and satisfying verdant county settings. Too long, too oldfashioned, too English, thought American publishers. But then in 1964 A Horseman Riding By, the first of Delderfield's Devonshire family sagas, sold an impressive 20,000 copies in the U.S. By 1970 the Delderfield blend of history, sentiment and foursquare storytelling could make God Is an Englishman a runaway U.S. bestseller (60,000 copies in hard cover, 500,000 in paper...
...corollary of the belief that Angola is part of a unitary Portuguese state is the profound sentiment that the people of Angola feel themselves to be Portuguese. Therefore, in the Portuguese mind, the fighting that has gone on for the past decade must come form the outside. Independent black African nations and the forces of international communism are blamed for the fighting. And the critics of Portugal's colonial policies in the West are thought of the ignorant dupes or communist agents...
...DIFFICULT to gauge who the Angolan people support, Angola, like all of Portugal and its possessions, has a tightly controlled press and strictly limited freedom of assembly. Without free public expression, an accurate measure of public sentiment is impossible...
Private expression is equally limited, not by law but by fear. They Portuguese secret police, known as the DGS or General Directorate of Security, has an omnipresent influence. The very fact that the DGS is so active and widespread is to some extent a measure of anti-Portuguese sentiment. In the cities, roundups of dissident intellectuals and political organizers occur every few months. The DGS works through a network of agents and informers, as often as not black African, induced to volunteer through financial psychological pressure...