Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change has taken place in the attitude of the American people towards HUAC as an institution because of this hearing, Kinoy asserted. "American people don't like to see little guys being kicked around," Kinoy (who is 5' 2") said, "and it's commendable sentiment." But the anti-HUAC response came mainly from people who felt that they had "gone too far this time," Kinoy explained...
...Regents, with or without Reagan's influence, are liable to be unsympathetic with a Free Speech Movement revival, knowing what political trouble the original cost them. By the same token, the anti-Goldwater, pro-civil rights sentiment that sparked such wide student support for the dissenters in 1964 will be absent from any FSM revivals. The Berkeley faculty and majority of the student body are likely to support slightly greater restrictions on campus political activity now than they would two years ago. Middle-man Heyns realizes this and appears to be maneuvering towards a solution which will satisfy both...
...Seltzer's misfortune to arrive in a climate of widespread hostility toward most of the ideas he advanced. Faculty sentiment was divided between support for Chapman's professionalism, and for the amateurism which had been the mark of Harvard theatre before the Loeb. Most students were committed to the latter, and they were just as hostile to credit courses as to outside people, graduate students and faculty members...
...where are we going?' " Democrats agreed. New York Senator Robert Kennedy acknowledged: "Some parts of the country want to go slower than others." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield conceded that the time had come for Congress to do some "tightening up" of the programs that he helped enact. Slowdown sentiment is certain to make itself felt the first time Congress is asked to fund an expensive foreign-aid or domestic program. "I should judge," said Dirksen, "that the scalpel will be wielded rather freely...
...Prussian army into "a state within a state," the German military has looked harshly on labor. Army bayonets cut down the demonstrating workers in 1848; army rifle butts broke strikes in the years that followed. Even after the defeat of World War II, German officers retained their antilabor sentiment, labeled union organizing efforts "contradictory to the principle of command and obedience." In August, Christian Democratic Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel knuckled under to labor pressure and permitted the Public Service, Transport and Traffic Workers Union (Soldiers Section) to begin recruiting in Bundeswehr barracks. That caused two top generals...