Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Using American universities as an example, Zimmerman stated, "The Universities of this country are now in a critical period. In Europe, to a considerable extent, the professors must play up entirely to popular sentiment. Slowly but surely this dominion of mass psychology, with its foibles and hysteria, is gaining a foothold in American universities...
Lockhart declared that he did not think the dictators really want a war because they realize the universal anti-war sentiment in Europe today. "They blackmail on the threat, however, and hit the weakest spots," he said. "They calculate the chances of war and if the odds are 9 to 5 against it, then they strike...
...painted in years-included several strong studies of Nova Scotia fishermen and an extraordinary memory portrait of the late Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, "as seen at night at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 15th Street" (see cut). Its tonic virtue: that it brought to life without sentiment an imaginative artist whose seclusion and eccentricity delayed until after death his fame as one of the great 19th-Century U. S. painters...
...admits gloomily, Germans echoed the sentiment of her hotel maid, who gave thanks that "we Germans have Adolf Hitler sent by God to help us." But by the next year Germans had begun talking in words that were oblique and ambiguous. They sang more than they cheered; they read new symbolical meanings in the little literature left to them. Germans, decided Nora Waln, were developing a resilience to Hitler as cunning as that of Chinese peasants...
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins cited growing sentiment of A. F. of L. and C. I. O. members for peace and declared that she hoped the "employers, workers, their unions and officials, now that peace negotiations are going on, will do everything they can in a constructive way to advance the chances for successful negotiation of the differences between...