Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Birmingham. Made myopic by his ego and his mendacious assumptions about the nature of America, King had not yet perceived the motivation that had caused this support to be accorded him, nor the conditions under which it was given. Instead, he regarded it as a spontaneous outpouring of moral sentiment, dictated by the Zeitgeist. His forensic imagery revolved around the vision of butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, bankers and welfare mothers forming an ecstatic muster and marching like faceless Johnnies to a nonviolent holy war for justice, dignity and the dream. In this vision, which was the underpinning of his famous...
...Richard B. Griffin S. J. '51, Catholic chaplain of Harvard and Radcliffe, will fly to Paris on Thursday to participate in a "Catholic Commission of Inquiry" into the recent growth of antiwar sentiment within the Catholic community of South Vietnam...
What can be done to prevent such a trade war? Certainly the solution does not lie in appeasing protectionist sentiment. Apart from...
PETER FLANIGAN: The U.A.W. stand is probably more a memorial to Walter Reuther than an expression of the sentiment of the members. Clearly, there is a great degree of protectionism in Congress. Agriculture has put up a strong barrier against protectionism in the past, but there is substantial erosion even there. Should there be an effort to expand meat imports substantially, I think you will find as big a split starting in agriculture as occurred in the unions...
Summer of '42 is a piece of machine-tooled sentiment about an adolescent's first stirrings of love and initiation into tentative adulthood. There is a standard form for films like this, and Summer of '42 seems to have been the model. It has gauzy, soft-focus photography and saccharin rhapsodies on the sound track. The writing is appropriately wretched and includes such Deathless Words to Live By as "Life is made up of small comings and goings." This wisdom was provided by Herman Raucher, co-scenarist of Anthony Newley's Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget...