Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miller originally intended that the interviews be part of a television series on Harry Truman to be shown in the early sixties. But apparently as a result of residual McCarthy era anti-Truman sentiment, he was still too hot a subject for television to handle at the time. The series was never produced. Miller's interviews probably would have made a remarkable television event. But as a biography, Plain Speaking leaves much to be desired...
...unfortunate that until now the Cambridge debate has centered mainly on sentiment and patriotism. The essence of this argument is that a highly dense area like Harvard Square cannot accommodate the compound effects of a large number of visitors...
...uncertainties in the historic impeachment inquiry now under way in the Congress are astronomical. But impeachment sentiment is rising, and a trial of the President in the Senate is increasingly probable. Senators and Representatives are trying to determine how and when these momentous events will unfold...
Certainly much of the sentiment for independence is tied to the Scots' feeling that they would be better off without the dead weight of England's colossal problems. "England is bankrupt and has nowhere to go," says Robert Curran, 50, a recently returned émigré. "Our whisky alone could float the government." Many Scots resent the fact that they hold few influential positions in the south, while Englishmen control many of the best jobs in Scotland. Despite net emigration losses totaling nearly 20% of the population since the mid-'50s, the Scots suffer an unemployment rate...
...Nixon administration has just as much a right to do so as the demonstrators had to picket. Any of the demonstrators would justifiably invoke the Bill of Rights if anyone dared question the lawfulness of their action; therefore they should show tolerance to a fellow student expressing a different sentiment...