Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Repeatedly throughout the afternoon, Timmons was asked by the President for soundings on the sentiment in the Senate. Each time, Timmons' telephoned report was distressing. At most, Timmons could count only 20 of the vital 34 votes Nixon would need to survive, and even that insufficient band kept dwindling...
...obvious agony of decision that Flowers showed at the Judiciary Committee debates has led many to express respect for his pro-impeachment stand. "I don't think his vote reflects the sentiment of his constituency," says Selma mayor Joe Smitherman, "[but] I do understand how he came to the conclusion to vote the way he did." The feeling that he did what he thought was right, combined with his overall popularity, will probably enable him to survive in the coming congressional election. For the moment, in fact, Flowers has no opposition for reelection...
Casablanca is arguably the best piece of movie romance ever to work its way onto the silver screen. It's all there: love and war, heroes and villians, sentiment and more sentiment. If that's not enough there's Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. And if that's still not enough there's the most touching line in all of movie history: "The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." Bogart reportedly picked the movie's ending because it made his mother cry. If it doesn't do the same...
What has become known as "the imperial presidency" troubles many Americans, although quite a few see nothing wrong with the aggrandizement of the office ("Leave it to the President; he knows more," is the often voiced sentiment). The office, having reached out to meet the crisis of the 1930s, then a world war, and finally the cold war with its threat of apocalypse, has grown so huge that it dominates and distorts a Government built upon the principle of coequal branches...
...that Peter Pan had absolutely the right idea about the whole painful subject. There are moments when Bowen cannot seem to decide whether to remember the past as Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield. No matter. He spares us any anguished memories about teen-age sex. He is full of sentiment but no self-pity. His quotes and anecdotes are often sharp and funny. "If thee marries for money," his Quaker stepfather once admonished him, "thee surely will earn it." Most important, Bowen writes about small boys, his own children included, with affection and dignity. His wife, he admits, recently complained...