Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scars will have two things going against him Tuesday. The first is that he is standing against the rising sentiment for hard-line law enforcement; the second is that he is a Republican in a Democratic city. Democrats who value the most progressive traditions of their party should cross party lines tomorrow to vote for John Sears for Sheriff...
...that contest, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks appealed to the lower middle class Irish backlash sentiment. The last poll before that election revealed an unusually high undecided vote of 25 per cent. Since White held a two to one lead, the undecided should have split two to one for him, but Mrs. Hicks captured 23 per cent of this vote to 2 per cent for White...
...usual, people should work actively for the campaign they believe in. A campaigner in Illinois will be collaring blue collar workers and telling them that Wallace is looney. If the polls then show a shift in sentiment giving Wallace a lead over Humphrey, the campaigner will start telling them that Nixon isn't as much of a reactionary as they think and they'd better make it with Wallace soon. But ostensibly being a member of the Humphrey campaign staff, he's in a great position to convert Humphrey votes. And, in fact, it is from the Humphrey camp that...
...foregoing cheap sentiment is designed to stave off consideration of the actual event. Max Adrian is an ingratiating performer and a hardworking actor, and his night of Shavian lore (mostly letters and autobiographical fragments) really works. If it does not, on the other hand, make Shaw's presence a more vivid one, it is because the subject's real life was as a writer rather than a personality, a writer sufficiently great that his prose truly outshone his person. Under these circumstances, it is inevitable that a portrayal will seem to diminish Shaw's stature as much as it throws...
...fact that the Dow meeting will be held," Bloch said yesterday. "The required number of signatures are available, but there is some sentiment that an open meeting sponsored by the faculty is not appropriate...