Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Life v. Property. New York's Mayor John Lindsay summed up the sentiment of most leaders and lawmen throughout the nation: "Protection of life, particularly innocent life, is more important than protecting property. We are not going to turn disorder into chaos through the unprincipled use of armed force; we are not going to shoot children." That drew down on Lindsay the collective wrath of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant merchants-both black and white-who charge that the mayor has been "soft" on rioters and insensitive to their pleas for city aid in repairing looted and burned-out businesses...
...March, the Student Mobilization Committee announced a campaign to register anti-war sentiment in the Time poll. A spokesman for the anti-war group said that Time is "trying to prove that the anti-war movement does not speak for students...
...unblemished patriotic fervor of You're a Grand Old Flag, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Over There. Few men now can adorn a woman in the romantic gauze and adoring awe of a song like Mary. Every addicted New Yorker and theatergoer will always feel a special tingle of sentiment from the opening bars of Give My Regards to Broadway, but the contrast with the squalor of Times Square now is painful...
...Johnson (Coward-McCann) but also for those who had hoped for easy pickings from a crop of anti-Johnsonia. Even a sympathetic study, the forthcoming A Very Personal Presidency by TIME White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey, stands in need of extensive updating. Taking account of the backlash of sentiment for the President, New American Library has already dropped plans for a paperback edition of the cartoon anthology L.B.J. Lampooned, will retitle Larry L. King's My Hero L.B.J. and Other Dirty Stories. Simon and Schuster's Quotations from Chairman L.B.J. is suddenly mustier than Mao, and Macmillan...
...organization strays a bit from this principle by throwing very small bones to anti-gun sentiment when the public demands stricter gun laws. After the tumultuously violent '30's, the NRA supported the 1935 National Firearms Act, which levied a $200 tax on the possession of machine guns and other gangster weapons. It also gave less enthusiastic backing to the 1938 Federal Firearms Act, which prohibits the sale of firearms to criminals or fugitives from justice. The law also requires gun dealers to purchase a Federal license, and requires them to keep records of all gun sales, including the name...