Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also the possibility that Congress will enact a law that would break up the big oil companies along functional lines. Currently, such legislation stands only a slim chance of passing. But if this winter brings fuel oil shortages or next summer brings a repetition of the gasoline scare, sentiment could swing in favor of such...
Bennett Webster, a lawyer and Republican county chairman in Iowa, may have an accurate instinct for popular sentiment: "The majority of people feel impeachment is too drastic, that the country can't stand it. It's more a fear of the unknown than anything else-a deep-seated fear of a radical proceeding." Says Thomas Campbell, a professor of history at Cleveland State University: "An impeachment process would disrupt the country, and we can't afford it. I'm concerned about other problems in the country-the monetary crisis, the food and housing difficulties...
...forced on Libyan women. "Because of biological defects, a woman's place is in the home," intoned Gaddafi. "These are not defects, Mr. President!" came the outraged reply. "All right, then," responded Gaddafi, "nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps." That sexist sentiment hardly endeared him to the women. To make matters worse, a number of Libyan women whom Gaddafi had flown in to reassure their Egyptian sisters about the joys of subservience instead pleaded with the Egyptians to help them change their status in Libya...
Though some traffic between the two houses exists on this level, most of it runs through the channels--or slips through the fingers--of popularizers and funny men in the pink-gloved Shavian tradition. But playing the dialectical scales with a ten-foot pole of fashionable sentiment tends to lopsided results. Such practices may sharpen the edge of wit but they blunt, if not miss, the point of dialectics. Hence the temptation to subscribe to the thesis that whatever the depth and seriousness of mind a dialectical command of reality requires, it must be incompatable with the temperamental high-jinks...
...sentiment gathers the disenchantment of 1973 in a nutshell and transfers it to a moment of the past. For Bogdanovich, the disenchantment creates a self-awareness more important than illusory goals. Admittedly this is resignation in the face of defeat, but when it is only art and not a way of life, I accept...