Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WISCONSIN CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM STEIGER. When he came back home from Washington, Bill Steiger, 35, had expected to find a good deal of sentiment against Nixon in his district, a blend of dairy farms, small business and industry around Oshkosh. But when the liberal Republican began taking his own straw polls at the meetings he attended, he was surprised by the results. True, 40 out of 100 students in his audience at Kiel Senior High School were for impeachment, but virtually none of the businessmen he met wanted to go that far, few were for resignation, and most, in fact, supported...
...years he has attracted a small but dedicated following of readers who accept his dour outlook and who are absorbed by the ramifications of his cutting-keen artistic conscience. In choosing him in the year of The Eye of the Storm, his ninth novel, the panel also showed a sentiment in favor of the "old-fashioned" novel-that is, a carefully crafted fictional edifice with a full complement of realistic detail and psychological probing. His newest book certainly has alj, that, but it is a pallid creation that often makes the reader wish -respectfully but vehemently-that the storm would...
...nation may well be poised on a fateful fulcrum that will either tip predominant sentiment toward a new faith in its fundamental institutions?including Congress, the Constitution and the courts?or send it into a trough of public despair and anomie. The direction will depend to a large degree upon how many members of Congress, Government
...Political scandals and corruption (see TIME ESSAY) will provoke widespread cries for reform. After the revelation that President Nixon paid only $792 in federal taxes on income of $262,942 in one year, the people will undoubtedly pressure Congress to raise the minimum tax and tighten up on deductions. Sentiment is building for some kind of public financing of elections so that the grubbier payoffs of Watergate will not be repeated. There will also be public pressure for laws requiring politicians to put on "public stripteases," revealing all about their finances...
Among the considerable afflictions of the serious novel these days are fear of banality and a horror of sentiment. However skillfully they are written, there is often not enough at stake in contemporary novels to keep the mind and heart alive. Two of the most encouraging exceptions this year were John Leonard's Black Conceit and John Gardner's Nickel Mountain. The two books are also in a sense contrapuntal. In one, reality destroys illusion. In the other, illusion is accepted as a means of protecting love...