Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paradoxical praise for novelist George Eliot was characteristic in her time. Today, young students and many adults who are obliged to read her worst book, Silas Marner, look on the great woman author as a kind of nanny-goat novelist. But the Victorian public, teetering between reason and sentiment, and tormented by the discrepancy between public virtue and private vice, was shocked and then charmed both by the author's daring life and her works. It began by accepting her early writing as the creation of a country parson, and it ended by making her one of the richest...
...unhappy ending, for example, and the creation of women characters who, if they are never shown in bed, are at least composed of flesh and blood. What stands between George Eliot and modern readers, however, is not merely her habit of intrusive and lengthy moralizing but the play of sentiment, which embarrasses perhaps for the very reason that it is so sincere. Richly mixed in, for those who wait to find it, are psychological insights that are penetrating and wittily precise, and an assortment of characters who rise above preposterous plots to lodge indelibly in the mind...
This hard-line approach to student demonstrations reflects the overwhelming sentiment of Republicans in Congress. Last May the House was shocked when it seemed possible that Columbia might show some leniency to students revolting against the distant and authoritarian administration. A Republican legislator, Louis C. Wyman of New Hampshire, moved to deny federal scholarships, loans, or other aid to any students who participated in a campus protest. Only a few Northern Democrats opposed...
Pell said that dissatisfaction with academic credit for ROTC is linked to antiwar sentiment--a political, not academic issue that should not involve ROTC status. "The minimum military skills a student is taught in college," he said, "are not radically different from many other skills taught in the typical institution of higher learning today...
Jelinek based his attack on the technique that has so often been successful in the South--mobilization of Northern sentiment. After the CBS special, SRRP received 20,000 pounds of raw hamburger from a Northern donor. The hamburger itself might be of some help--it could give perhaps a tenth of the poor families one wholesome meal. But it would obviously be only a token effort, unless SRRP could exploit it to change the national programs...