Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the fuel shortage. In the wake of Watergate, there are bills to tighten the income tax laws and to provide federal financing for political campaigns. A trade bill is pending to give the President the power to negotiate worldwide agreements easing the flow of goods. There is rising sentiment for national health insurance. And up ahead is another fight over the size and shape of the military budget...
...final speech from the dock, one of the most eloquent addresses ever delivered in the cause of a free Ireland, Casement declared, "Loyalty is a sentiment, not a law. It rests on love, not restraint. The government of Ireland by England rests on restraint and not on law; and since it demands no love, it can evoke no loyalty." Self-government, he added, is "a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers...
...things have been going this season, that question is about as easy as a Chem 20 exam. Crimson hockey mentor Bill Cleary echoes the sentiment around the division. "This is the zaniest, daffiest year I can recall. Anyone who would make predictions now would be out of his mind...
What Stott illustrates is that for most social scientists in the thirties the plight of the poor became an occasion for sentiment. The ubiquitous appearance of middle class values and virtues in the case histories of "representative" men and families among the unemployed characterized a type of superficial "consensus" social science that effaced individuality and sacrificed real insight for the sake of reassurance. The sharp empirical texture and psychological insight gained by participant observation were often undermined by the brittle emotions that academic writers indulged in. Compassions degenerated into pity, and sentiments became substitute for the tough-minded social analysis...
...taking that first financial and prestigious success as artistic encouragement. And Happy New Year is a better movie--which isn't saying much--but not too different. It's as if he tried here to penetrate to the man and woman the first movie sloshed over with sentiment. And he ended up with just as pretty a movie: He tints for mood, blurs for romance, switches to black and white for solemnity. The actors don't have to do anything because the soulful camera projects all their moods on them. It's rhythmed and designed more like a bumpy hayride...