Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...striking lack of antimonarchist sentiment was perhaps the most impressive tribute to Elizabeth's quarter-century reign. The vast majority of her subjects clearly appreciate the manner in which she has fulfilled her unique constitutional role: embodying the nation's unity, providing historical continuity, standing above party strife and class divisions. "We yearn for symbols of national unity," wrote Tory Elder Statesman Lord Hailsham in the Sunday Telegraph. "The Americans have their Constitution and flag. In addition to our flag, we have our Queen." Nonetheless, as Hailsham told TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel, he fears that...
...rise, even in the Republican Party's own ranks, for Adams' resignation. At first Eisenhower stoutly defended his aide. But it was a congressional election year, and party pros were convinced that the Adams affair was damaging their chances. Vice President Nixon, assigned to weigh party sentiment, found that virtually all Republican candidates wanted Adams out. That jibed with Nixon's own view then, though in the Frost interview he never suggested that he privately sought Adams' resignation. Republican National Committee Chairman Meade Alcorn also told Ike, "Sherm must...
That still leaves much to talk about. Protectionist sentiment is on the rise in the U.S. and Europe, though Carter's refusal in March to impose higher tariffs on shoe imports is seen as an effective countering force, at least in spirit. Indeed the Europeans and the Japanese are by and large encouraged by what they have seen of Carter so far. Says one top European policymaker: "I detect a world approach that is very impressive." The President hopes to revive the bogged-down Tokyo Round of tariff-cutting trade negotiations begun two years ago in Geneva. Says...
Except for an understandable overflow of sentiment, the final episode of Upstairs, Downstairs, PBS's blue-chip 'British import, was of a piece with its predecessors. There was the titillating peek into the ways of conspicuous consumption: among other extravagances, the recipe for Georgina's four-tiered wedding cake calls for 16 pounds of currants. There was the history bulletin: Hudson snaps shut his newspaper (the time is 1930) and announces that two million Englishmen are unemployed. There was the subtle reminder that no servant is a heroine to her mistress: in an unusual fit of garrulity...
...professor underscored this sentiment when he told the Faculty that the chief virtue of the motion it voted on was that it was "content-free...