Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Violating the no-politics rule of the conference, China's Deputy Foreign Minister Zhang Wenjin accused Hanoi of "militarism, genocide, creating and exporting refugees, causing human disasters and spreading anti-Chinese sentiment in Southeast Asia." Although China claims to have accepted 230,000 refugees, Zhang offered to take an additional 10,000 "if they choose to come." He also pledged $1 million for U.N. refugee relief...
...acoustic, the other electric--is the most honest of these three in confronting the horrible personality disorders of the "too old to rock and roll, too young to die" pop star. One song in particular, "My, My, Hey, Hey"--which gets both acoustic and electric treatments--sums up the sentiment of Rust Never Sleeps...
Neither side so far has produced convincing statistics, but by last week the squabbling had degenerated into some of the nastiest transatlantic name-calling in years. The West German Economics Minister, Count Otto Lambsdorff, expressed "surprise and regret" at the U.S. subsidy. One of his assistants captured the prevailing sentiment: "It hurts when your friends stab you in the back." In Washington, French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet led a weeklong parade of protesting diplomats through the White House. François-Poncet got a mere 15-minute meeting with President Carter, and that reflected the crisp indifference...
...however, mention the unchecked power of the Harvard Corporation--which he heads--to invest the University's endowment and to set purchasing and fundraising policies. Bok and the Corporation have been careful not to share their power on these issues despite vigorous and widespread faculty and student sentiment. He gave a clue to the reason for this autocratic stance in his second letter when he wrote that Harvard "will command much less respect if it takes political stands on matters unrelated to education, especially among businessmen who regard these stands as the product of student protest and campus unrest...
...White House and Kennedy contend that public sentiment is building irresistibly for the eventual enactment of some kind of universal health insurance plan. The present programs vary wildly but have one thing in common: the costs keep rising...