Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Error Margin. To justify the apparent turnabout, Gallup suggested that the timing of the poll taking was crucial. Gallup's sampling was made between July 19 and 21, just after Dwight Eisenhower endorsed Nixon. Ike's announcement may have swung some sentiment to his former Vice President...
...begins and ends with the reporting of facts." Harris argues that survey results are meaningful only if they are digested and interpreted. Each pollster has his own methods. Harris likes to reinterview some one he has already talked with, figuring that he can thus detect changes in sentiment over periods of time. Gallup, on the other hand, argues that a second interview makes a voter selfconscious, so that he gives a less accurate reflection of public sentiment...
...sheer volatility of voter sentiment this year probably contributed to the wide differences in the pollsters' findings. Though the primaries were over, some of the same factors still applied: a plethora of candidates, no established party tickets, and moiling confusion in both parties over the issues. Despite the pollsters' fatiloquent accuracy in past years, they have stumbled often in the past six months. Almost all, for example, have consistently underestimated Eugene McCarthy's considerable strength. Harris and Gallup have frequently differed in their preference surveys, though never so widely as in the preconvention week...
...Socialist youths in Sofia symbolized and expressed the widespread sentiment of Communist parties across Europe. It was this opposition, the prospect of profoundly splitting the already splintered Communist world, that was a big factor in the outcome of the Russian-Czechoslovak confrontation. In a memorable turn of events, Russia last week backed down on nearly all its demands of Alexander Dubcek's reformist regime in Czechoslovakia (see following story...
...novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was half poetry, and like most poetry, it suffers in translation. Yet, though much of the sentiment drips into sentimentality, Arkin is triumphant as an Everyman isolated from the humanity he can reach but not touch. With galvanic, Chaplinesque gestures, he makes his inarticulate mouth seem to shout his agonies; when he "talks" to himself, he speaks sign language with a weary, resigned accent that makes his fingers seem to sigh...