Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black Power sentiment is fed, among other things, by the urban Negro's pent-up resentment of the white businessmen who make their living from the slum's daily needs. These white-run enterprises, blacks complain, not only batten on the ghetto's misery by overcharging for shoddy goods but also siphon off their profits from Negro neighborhoods and seldom employ black workers...
...Leftist Sentiment...
Effectively, the political atmosphere at Harvard is dominated by those activist groups whose relatively small memberships do not reflect the majority Leftist sentiment here...
...tackling a coherent question: is exile a valid means of protesting repression? Lerner narrows in on this subject through the character of an 18-year-old anti-Nazi whose conviction derives largely from jealousy. The secondary theme is thus the effect of personal motives on the legitimacy of political sentiment...
...quest for love and "self-realization." Janis Ian launched her precocious career with Society's Child, a bitter plaint about a white girl pressured into breaking up with her Negro boy friend, but has since concentrated more on what she calls "mood songs." Arlo Guthrie, 20, expresses antiwar sentiment in Alice's Restaurant (TIME, Jan. 12), but he wryly folds it into the overall theme of his own picaresque adventures with bureaucratic authority. The trend is summed up by Tim Hardin, 26, a sometime performer and gifted songwriter (If I Were a Carpenter, The Lady Came from Baltimore...