Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This resurgence of nationalist sentiment comes at a bad time for England. While efforts to preserve Scottish and Welsh culture come only just in time to prevent their extinction, it is a vain hope that smaller units of economic and social organization will be able to keep their heads above water any better than large ones in the approaching economic deluge. Unless the Scots are willing to become a sheikdom on the Clyde, a few decades of oil-boom cannot be a substitute for industrial development. Their growing isolationism is reflected in the Labour party's desire...
...Germany. But we have not had in Europe, until now, a real model for a liberal advanced society ... France is a traditionalist country, one that hangs on to its past and traditions while leading a rather active intellectual life. There is an apparent contradiction between intellectual life and the sentiment for traditions. But from time to time one must try to reconcile those, and I would like to use the intellectual capacity of France to invent, to organize a genuinely liberal advanced society. Why do I say liberal? It could be socialist. But the French nature, instinct and behavior...
...must comply with it because it is the law"). He called on U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity to begin hearings on a second phase of Boston school desegregation scheduled to go into operation in 1975. His strategy, the mayor's aides explained, would draw antibusing sentiment off the street and into the courtroom. At the same time, they speculated, it might lead to a decision not to bus students between schools in South Boston and predominantly black Roxbury, but to bus black and white students to a neutral site between the two neighborhoods...
...balanced assessment of the Ford program was offered by Bill Meis, 29, an aspiring novelist who lives with his wife and two children in Montreal. Denied conscientious-objector status, he fled in 1968. "O.K., I accept the sentiment behind the proposal," he says, "but it's a kind of humiliation, a concept that we were subversive. It's a hardship for our families. Some of them would have to go on welfare for two years while husbands served out their debts. I've had a very good life here, but there's no point in denying...
...servants "on extended leave," students looking for places at Lisbon University, shopkeepers, farmers, nuns, Asians, mulattoes and frightened old people. Pushing a cart piled high with 14 suitcases and carrying a bicycle, João Tudo Bern, a civil servant from the Angolan capital of Luanda expressed the prevailing sentiment: "I have six months vacation now, but I will go back and work for the new government-if they don't throw...