Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week's sentiment was not confined to the leftist young. Peter Winnen, 27, a Kent State junior and an Army veteran of Khe Sanh, appeared at a Cleveland rally. "I saw enough violence, blood and death and I vowed, 'never again, never again.' What I saw on campus was the same thing again. Now I must protest. I'm not a leftist, but I can't go any further. I'll do damn near anything to stop the war now." The League of Women Voters, holding a convention in Washington, departed from nonpartisanship to hold an antiwar rally...
...responded. "There are millions of people like me. We're fed up with your movement. You're forcing us into it. We'll have to kill you. All I can see is a lot of kids blowing a chance I never had." It was not an isolated sentiment...
Saturday began quietly. Black student leaders, who had been demanding the admission next year of 5,000 more blacks to Kent State (it now has about 600), and leaders of the mounting antiwar sentiment on campus talked of joining forces. They got administrative approval to hold a rally that evening on the ten-acre Commons at the center of the campus. There, despite the presence of faculty members and student marshals, militant war protesters managed to take complete charge of a crowd of about 800, many still smarting from the conflict of the night before. They disrupted a dance...
...approximately 10,000 needy black children each month, but teach the youngsters to hate white police. With their readiness to stand up to authorities, they have won widespread sympathy among the nation's black, especially among black youth, many of whom see them as romantic heroes. Surprisingly, the sentiment is also strong among older and more successful blacks, some of whom may see the Panthers as surrogate revolutionaries, willing and able to do the things that they would like but are unable to do themselves. They also inspire considerable fear in the black community, which doubtless explains some...
...buying stocks right now." The comment was rather reminiscent of John D. Rockefeller's attempt to rally public confidence during the Great Crash.* The Rockefeller bullishness did scarcely anything to stem the market decline in 1929, but Nixon's remark did a little to crystallize sentiment that stock prices had reached bargain levels. It helped set off a technical rally in a deeply oversold market...