Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deed and by word, Washington addressed Hanoi last week in unwonted concert. The message was clear. Despite all the antiwar sentiment in the universities and within the U.S. Senate, despite all the Administration's avowals that it will explore any reasonable route toward a negotiated peace, the American people, however unhappy or confused about the war, agree in greater numbers than ever that it must continue to be fought-at least to the kind of conclusion that permits a realization of the Allies' aims...
...polls in their Houses very quickly. "There has to be discussion," went the typical remark still, all of them know exactly what their students wanted. That wasn't hard to figure out, even without the polls. But they felt they couldn't simply go by that kind of sentiment. Nonetheless Stewart supported his boys...
FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A nostalgic search for the essence of Jewish fatherhood by a loving son who tempers sentiment with just the right amount of irony and cynical insight...
...year-he is far too canny to make himself a lame duck at this stage of the game-but if he does, he will face the toughest opponent of his career in Barry Goldwater. Though he has the unquestioned advantages of seniority and more than a little edge in sentiment (he can still recall seeing Geronimo's hostile Apache signal fires glinting from the hills), Hayden would be 97 when the term expired, and might have some difficulty appealing to the thousands of young, newly arrived Arizonans. Last week, however, the view was to the past rather than...
...only to ratify; now it is asked to abdicate," said Jean Lecanuet, the head of the Centre Démocrate Party and a leading center politician. He was expressing widespread bitterness at what many non-Gaullists consider a maneuver to counteract the larger-than-ever showing of a.nti-Gaullist sentiment at the polling booths two months ago. An ominous sign came by week's end when one of the general's faithful lieutenants, hulking Edgar Pisani, 48, Minister of Public Works and Housing and a Cabinet member since 1961, resigned in protest against the government's attempt...