Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elections. The voting base is small, the electorate volatile, the reins of party discipline lax-and in 1972 the Democratic candidates many. Pollster Louis Harris, who is not gauging primaries this year, points out that polling must continue virtually up to election eve to spot possible switches in voter sentiment that can run as high as 20% in the week before voting day. Given all the hazards, the polling in New Hampshire measured up reasonably well against the actual results...
...present plans-drawn up by the University Planning Office-were determined by popular sentiment expressed at public hearings held by a special Sub-Committee of the City Council appointed early this year by Mayor Barbara Ackermann...
...cold war he catered to their sense of sinister conspiracy, then by a more or less relevant act or report relieved the anxiety he had helped create. He predicted the Hungarian revolt, for in stance, and the Israeli-Arab Six-Day War. But these events occurred any way. Sentiment dictates that Gehlen be treated as the last of the Scarlet Pimpernels. He was, in fact, more like the last of the Prussians - a nostalgia the world could hardly afford even in his own time. ·Melvin Maddocks
...song "Goodbye Josh," dedicated to his friend and mentor Josh White, is also straightforward, and foregoes maudlin sentiment for a simple, sincere farewell...
...RESULTS of these efforts are predictably mised, since the group's dissolving reflects a crisis in folk music itself. Folk music is the product of a country's and-or a people's spirit. When the common sentiment atrophies, very little substance remains for the folk artist to record. The alternatives are to reshape the spirit of the music as the spirit of the country changes, or to use the musical tradition to folk music to express more subjective, individual feelings usually in ballads and in love songs...