Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film's simplifications but saluted its spirit. Stanley Kauffman in The New Republic, applauded the film as entertainment, though he scored its faults more heavily than Kael; he singled out Jon Voight's performance and Martin Ritt's tactful, sympathetic direction, and noted that if the film relies on sentiment, organic, well-dramatized sentiment is always justifiable...
...dramatically contradict the humanitarian aims of the seniors' top two--and probably top three-choices, the committee made a mockery of its supposed role as collective representative of the senior class. The committee acted as though convenience and inviting any celebrity were more important than respecting the prevailing sentiment among graduating seniors...
...proposal is modest but Degler's study penetrates sections of the South's nineteenth century social fabric. Degler shows that race subordinated class interests even among dissenters, that realism rather than moralism set the cadence of Southern reform rhetoric, that Union sentiment in the South was more often "cautious, conservative and realistic" than egalitarian. And so he concludes logically that Southern dissenters still "wore the stamp of their region. They were Southerners...
...Africans who cannot vote. Prime Minister John Vorster, 58, called the elections 18 months ahead of schedule to seek a mandate to pursue the racial policy that Afrikaners call kragdadigheid (ironfistedness), which has been coming under increasing fire from verligte (enlightened) South Africans. After the ballots were counted, the sentiment was clear: five more years of harsh segregation...
...newsmen, politicians and lawyers in London is that gagging writs will never again be a reliable device for silencing the press. Said Bernard Levin, a top columnist for the Times of London: "The dam is down beyond any possibility of re-erection." Mail Editor David English echoes the common sentiment among British journalists: "I don't think that after Watergate we could have gone on as before...