Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drinks excessively (58%). All this despite the fact that suburban parents do not consider themselves particularly permissive. If parents found their teenager smoking pot, two-thirds would insist that he stop, nearly a third would try to talk him out of it, and only 1% would not interfere. The sentiment for a strict approach to child rearing emerges in other ways. Two-fifths of the parents would insist that a teen-age boy with long hair...
...were "ballots" that readers were invited to fill out, expressing their opinion on the death penalty and other aspects of law enforcement. Of the ballots that had been counted last week, 10,620 advocated dusting off and using "Old Sparky," as prisoners call the chair. There seemed little sentiment to approach the problem from the other direction-by regulating the sale of guns, which can still be bought in Texas as conveniently as aspirin...
...addition, women from the ad hoc group reported discussions with other University officials who felt that pressure for a bust is mounting within the Administration. These sources cited President Pusey's return to Cambridge as an important factor in the growth of this sentiment...
...most serious question of all was ignored at the antiwar conference, much as it has been by almost everyone in the antiwar movement. No one questioned whether large, effusive outpourings of antiwar sentiment every six months or year have any effect on governmental policy. No one suggested the possibility that antiwar activists might better spend their time digging in for a long-term, daily fight against the war in every city and town in this country. No one seriously raised the idea that maybe massive demonstrations are stale, an old idea that hasn't worked. The most serious question...
...current conflict around PL is easy to trace. Ever since its entry into SDS, in fact, PL has been a focus of heated controversy. A fledgling labor movement, PL decided in 1966 to have some of its younger members join SDS in order to link radical antiwar sentiment to trade unionism and, more important, to increase the membership of the party. But PL's Marxist orientation did not jibe well with the SDS of 1966, which was a loosely organized, free-wheeling coalition of anti-war and civil rights groups. A resolution to expel PL members from SDS was nearly...