Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gruff-voiced Karnow, who began reporting from Southeast Asia in 1959 for Time and Life, makes a point of not capitalizing on isolationist sentiment aroused by Vietnam, though he understands that much of the interest among college-age students stems from just such a concern...
...recent manifestation of the "no-more-Vietnams" sentiment among youth was the surge of support for Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) in the recent primaries after Hart, without the sublety or the shadings of a Karnow or even a Walter F. Mondale, advocated an unequivocal non-interventionist line vis-a-vis the Middle East and Central America...
...lived in Poland. A sweater-clad Pertini followed in a snowmobile, puffing on his pipe and crying, "Santitá [Holiness], you whirl about like a swallow." Stopping at a mountain lodge for a lunch of pasta, beef and wine, John Paul toasted "a true friendship and an authentic human sentiment." Pertini then headed back to Rome, but the Pope stayed on the slopes for another day of enthusiastic downhilling. Reported Alpine Guide Franco Zani: "He skied at a level you could call intermediate-calm, slowly, turning well." Most important, Zani noted, "he did not fall...
Assuming the critical reports do not have the calamitous effect of generating sentiment for still greater defense funds--to bolster conventional, along with nuclear forces--concern over military readiness could help stem the growth of the nuclear aresenal. The danger is that greater "preparedness" could mushroom into a dangerous build-up in conventional forces, but in general, any break on the nuclear effort would be a welcome change...
...objects of the most pessimism, in addition to Consumers Power and Lilco, are Public Service Co. of Indiana, Public Service Co. of New Hampshire and United Illuminating of Connecticut. All undertook ambitious nuclear power programs in the 1970's, then saw those projects threatened by antinuke sentiment after Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island accident. On top of that came searing double-digit inflation and rising interest rates that drove up construction costs to four and five times the estimates. The oil shocks of the 1970's made it all the harder for the utilities to produce cheap...