Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system. Murphy himself has meditated since the fall of 1969, and says "without fear of correction that it has aided me physically and mentally." The significance of the legislature's approval of his resolution, however, is open to possible correction: few legislators anywhere read proposed statements of legislative sentiment. Two years ago the Texas legislature unanimously affirmed a measure praising the Boston Strangler for his efforts on behalf of population control...
There is little doubt that popular sentiment against Papadopoulos' regime has risen sharply in recent months. Amid charges of corruption in high places, junta favoritism to business interests, accelerating inflation and the decreasing value of the drachma (which is tied to the dollar), student unrest broke into the open this spring. Last month, exiled former Premier Constantine Caramanlis, 66, issued a bitter broadside from Paris against the regime, calling for its resignation and the return of the King to oversee the restoration of democracy...
...despite widespread sentiment for law-and-order, Nixon was working against the grain of his time-the public desire for less secrecy, more accountability. Moreover the courts were unwilling to go along with many of the Nixon schemes, particularly John Mitchell's interpretation of wiretapping. The Administration had so weak a case on wiretapping that its own Solicitor General-at the time, former Harvard Law School Dean Erwin Griswold-refused to argue it. He went so far as to tell Mitchell that his staff would not carry the appeal. It was one of the few times in history that...
...anyone deliberately called Artie could be. I found their music smug and overconfident; it represented the worst of the thoroughly reprehensible middle sixties "folkie" tradition. It was all there in "Homeward Bound;" its singer's over-inflated, self-pitying view of himself was combined with a banal excursion into sentiment. By the time S and G had reached the self-conscious artiness of "The Boxer," they had dissipated their creative impulse, aad were selling two million records at a crack...
Some of the classics in the world of the arts are like family heirlooms, objects of lingering sentiment rather than pinnacles of aesthetic quality. Is the Mona Lisa a great painting, Les Sylphides a great ballet, or Clair de Lune a great piece of music? Not really, but they are all sentimental favorites. So it is with Cyrano de Bergerac. Both the play and its hero are more than a trifle silly. Yet this poet-duelist ham who boasts of besting 100 men in a single encounter has proved endearing...