Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buying Time. The professors deplored "the recent rise of isolationist sentiment in the U.S.," and the fact that "many Americans find Asia remote and marginal to their interests." As for what the nation's position should be, "The ability to develop and defend policies attuned to limited objectives-including a policy of limited war-has become the vital test of the U.S. today. Our opponents count upon our impatience, our impetuousness, our immaturity. They must be proven wrong...
Consternation reigned at the Basel Museum. The foundation intimated that a wealthy American had offered $2,560,000 for the Picassos, but for the sake of sentiment, it would be willing to let the museum have them for a mere $1,950,000. The museum's annual acquisitions fund is only $65,000, but the Basel city government voted to contribute $1,372,000, provided that the remaining $578,000 could be raised from private sources. Dozens of townsfolk pitched in to raise the money, schoolchildren canvassed the streets, artists offered paintings and pottery for sale at a street...
...basis of the Japanese press is to know what's right. "The 1960 rioting was a great lesson," Asahi Managing Editor Kikuo Tashiro told TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Jerrold L. Schecter last week. "At that time, most of the people were moved by emotion and sentiment rather than any basic understanding of the issues. Since then, they have become much more mature politically, and the press has reflected this...
French Director Claude Lelouch's un abashed romanticism brought A Man and a Woman to within an inch of the border between sentiment and sentimen tality. In Live for Life, he crosses over the line - and back into the land of the Woman's Picture, where men must wander and ladies must weep, alone. The movie's hero is a bored, lecherous French television reporter (Yves Montand) who perpetually roams from his aging wife (Annie Girardot) on journeys to the Congo or the Orient, searching for stories. Though he apparently has his pick of every female...
...Trade expansion with Communist countries got nowhere, as Congress showed an upsurge of protectionist sentiment and even more hostility than usual to foreign aid. The aid bill was reduced $1 billion below the Administration request to $2.29 billion, its lowest level ever; renewal of the Export-Import Bank's charter and funding beyond June 30 was delayed; and there were a number of efforts to protect industries claiming injury by foreign competition...