Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support for the contras, begun in 1981, dropped off following revelations 14 months ago that CIA operatives had helped them mine Nicaraguan harbors. When the Administration began sounding out legislators on the chances for a resumption early this year, it quickly became obvious that there was little sentiment in favor of military aid. The Administration sought to get around this opposition by drafting the "nonlethal" formulation, and seeking to push it through Congress in the midst of a budget debate. Result: a defeat in the House by the squeaker difference of 215 to 213, with 14 Republicans voting against...
Gorbachev's overtures were clearly aimed at Western Europe. Some analysts assume that he is trying to encourage anti-Star Wars sentiment in member states of the Western alliance by linking missile reductions in Europe to abandonment of the U.S. space-weapons scheme. According to a West European diplomat in Moscow, Gorbachev may "try to separate at least parts of Europe from the U.S. on the subject of Star Wars...
Mention the notion of a play about newspapering, and audiences tend to think of characters like those so affectionately evoked in The Front Page: raffish, even loutish, prone to sensationalism and cheap sentiment, but also truthful, keenly professional and dedicated to exposing wrongdoing in high places. Reporters have delighted in seeing themselves depicted as figures of quixotic integrity in plays ranging from the Broadway musical Woman of the Year to Tom Stoppard's rueful tragicomedy Night and Day. But the current wave of antipress feeling in the U.S. may have spread to Britain as well. Audiences at London's National...
...Harvard students are not completely immune to the wave of conservatism spreading across the nation. McGuire points out that the more than one-quarter of Harvard students who supported the Republican candidate in this race shows a sharp rise in conservative sentiment on campus. In addition, freshmen were the greatest supporters of Reagan at Harvard. Only 56.9 percent of the freshman Class of '88 voted for Mondale in the IOP poll--compared to 61 percent in all four classes--with 35.6 percent supporting Reagan...
With a little champagne in the Rose Garden and a good deal of sentiment from Ronald Reagan, the White House troika marched into the history books last week to become another chapter in the arcane world of staffing and running the presidency. Meese, Baker, Deaver, sounding -- and often acting -- like an infield in the American League, now will be part of the lore that includes Nicolay and Hay, who served Lincoln, Colonel House, who advised Wilson, Kennedy's Irish Mafia and the infamous Berlin Wall, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, Nixon's unfortunate duo who ended up in jail...