Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their goal for the moment is to use the circumstance of the Bicentennial to get Americans thinking about an economic revolution, finding the rhetoric of 1776 an ideal vehicle for social change that is at once radical and patriotic. The PBC organizers hope to drive the sentiment in this country in favor of progressive social change farther than ever before by working slowly on incremental change by pointing to corporate capitalism as the most fundamental single problem in America. Their program allows them to bring together the remnants of the peace movement, the old New Left, women's movements, anti...
...relatively small and weak. Its lack of large cities, sizeable racial minorities, and significant concentrations of organized labor make it rather unrepresentative of the nation as a whole. Since the results of the first primary are inevitably subjected to extensive interpretation, it would be better to tap the sentiment of a larger New England electorate...
...doubtful if Mrs. Woodside ever saw a real war protester, but she shares some of the same sentiment. Part of the reason is the war diary of her Uncle John. In it is a half-written letter. "It was full of joy and boyish hopes," she says. "He wrote about the letters he had got from girls, which girl he had chosen for his sweetheart. He never finished the letter. He was killed. Such a waste." That was in the Civil War. Her grandson was in Viet...
...fairly stable residential population. At present, only one-third of each River House changes each year: a slightly higher turnover is found at the Quad because freshmen are housed there. Under the proposed plan, turnover would be fifty percent each year. Continuity of residence, with the concomitant sentiment of membership, is the only basis for commitment to a House. Having moved three times during his or her college career. I maintain that a student will develop no true House loyalty, and that the "small college within a large university" concept would therefore be doomed...
...Congress, sentiment is growing to carry the discount trend to its logical conclusion and deregulate fares completely, leaving the carriers free to charge whatever they please rather than requiring them to seek Civil Aeronautics Board approval for every change. Airline leaders, however, are aghast at the thought of going that far. IATA Director General Knut Hammarskjold calls deregulation, which would affect international as well as domestic flights, "suicide." TWA Chairman Charles Tillinghast predicts that it would lead to a "breakdown of the system as we know it," and eventually to "pressure for subsidies and nationalization." Although few people...