Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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IDEALLY, primary elections can be viewed as national contests in microcosm, races that measure and illuminate shifting voter sentiment across the country. But primaries, like other political mechanisms, almost never fulfill ideals. Local problems, quirky election laws and this year's long, variable roster of contestants can easily warp the reflection of what people really think. Because our business is to report on these attitudes as well as an election's outcome and impact, we introduce this week a new campaign-season feature -a report on a TIME Citizens Panel to complement our cover story on George McGovern...
...student support for its continuation. But we should go on working in whatever ways possible to end America's reign of terror in Southeast Asia. Students should return to class, but should be prepared to disrupt again their normal schedules and lend support to specific demonstrations of antiwar sentiment. This sentiment must not be lost in a shuffle of university issues...
...purpose of the meeting was to arrive at a platform endorsed by Harvard students, not outsiders. Even assuming that all of the less than 2000 people that attended were Harvard students, it would still be obvious that the passed proposals were still not indicative of the true University-wide sentiment due to the relative sparseness of the crowd less than 40 per cent of undergraduate enrollment...
...would suggest that all future proposals that profess to truly represent University sentiment should be voted on, by ballot, at meals in each of the various houses. Such proposals would not be considered endorsed by the student body unless at least 70 per cent of the students vote and at least two-thirds of that 70 per cent endorses the proposal. It that arrangement proves too difficult to implement, and it should not, that bursar's cards should be checked at all future mass meetings and provisions made to accomodate more of the student body to prevent the recurrence...
Balance is a key to Doc and Merle Watson's sound-a balance between practiced craftsmanship in playing and an unaffected honesty each time they play, and between deeply felt emotion in the songs and a thoughtful artistic control which eschews the kind of mawkish sentiment to which too much "simple" music falls victim...