Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stray votes on the campaign trail, Jimmy Carter last week took time out to nominate Bank of America President A.W. (Alden Winship) Clausen, 57, to succeed Robert S. McNamara, 64, as president of the World Bank. The White House made the announcement now in order to head off growing sentiment among the 138 nations making up the World Bank that it was time for a non-American to head the organization. Ever since the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were jointly founded in 1944, the bank has been headed by an American and the IMF by a European...
...James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman fellowships, disagreed with Reagan-victory sentiment, saying he believes Carter will capture at least the popular vote "by an eyelash...
Reagan advisers and political analysts tend to agree that Bush's nomination represents a triumph of electoral logic over sentiment. (Bush was chosen, for instance, over Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), a close friend and ideological cohort of Reagan whose selection would have put two conservative Westerners on the ticket.) A Texas oil industry, Bush has the advantage of a split geographical background. While a presidential candidate, he won six primaries--including those in the key states of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Michigan--and is being counted on to help Reagan in those areas where the former California governor is weakest...
Douglas had almost finished the second volume of his memoirs when he died on January 19, 1980; his editors have just released The Court Years, his story of life on the bench. There is little sentiment; there are many facts, several insights. Not a page-turner, or even a "pageant-of-history" in vivid colors, it demands to be taken seriously as the final document of a man who did so much to shape American society--almost always for the better...
...Constable's deep, poetic curiosity about the facts of landscape; still less did he rise to Turner's heights of sublimity or audacity of color. But both painters admired him. "Soothing, tender and affecting," Constable called Gainsborough's landscapes. "His object was to deliver a fine sentiment, and he has fully accomplished it ... The stillness of noon, the depths of twilight, and the dews and pearls of the morning, are all to be found on the | canvases of this most benevolent and kindhearted man. On looking at them, we find tears in our eyes, and know...