Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answers. Protest songs and rock music are hardly decadent--they represent a social and artistic commitment to our world. They, not "John Henry" are the songs of us folk, as hip Country and Western groups. Sure, folk music is often great and gutsy. But the simplistic Romantic anti-sellout sentiment it symbolizes in this play really equals the willful alienation of Sankey's hero, who speaks to no one, either in his stage world or in the audience world. An individual standing alone against evils can be beautiful, but the individual must have more to say than "fuck...
GLEN CAMPBELL: HEY, LITTLE ONE (Capitol). Campbell appears on the cover holding an immense guitar, but he sounds as if he were backed by a Wagnerian orchestra. His hoarse dark voice is suitable to such zingy sentiment as the popular Elusive Butterfly and the lushly poignant Woman, Woman. Campbell's inflection may be country, but his delivery is unquestionably urbane...
...state's delegation is still regarded as predominantly pro-Nixon, the Percy-Rockefeller rapprochement* had psychological repercussions. There were three gubernatorial nonendorsements. James Rhodes of Ohio, Spiro Agnew of Maryland and George Romney of Michigan hung loose. The three states have 132 votes among them with enough Nixon sentiment to settle matters. As long as they remain even nominally neutral, however, Rockefeller and Reagan operatives can keep pleading elsewhere...
...boycotts and demonstrations to force them out. Known as "the 2,000 words," the manifesto was originally signed by 70 members of the country's elite, including artists, film directors and athletes; later, more than 30,000 more Czechoslovaks signed up. The document is designed to build up sentiment for a purge of hard-liners at a special party Congress to be held on Sept. 9, when Dubček's reformers hope to sack most of the remaining followers of deposed, pro-Stalinist President Antonin Novotn...
...guerrilla base camp, Che was faced with the task of trying to impose his strict martial control on a group that had violated its own party discipline by joining his forces. Castro, in his introduction, bitterly accuses Monje of sabotaging the whole campaign with his "chauvinism and sterile reactionary sentiment...