Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commonly accepted-if ill-defined-name for this reversal of sentiment is, of course, "white backlash," a catchall term that accommodates every shade of reaction from out-and-out bigotry through unexpected fear to sorrowful inaction. In whatever guise, backlash now threatens not only to overshadow most other issues in many parts of the nation at the polls next month but also to negate some of the signal achievements for which the U.S. Negro has striven so hard...
...Renaissance of the South." Should Van succeed, he will have the largest regional grouping in the Assembly (northerners account for 27 seats, central Vietnamese for 28). Cutting across regional lines, Dr. Phan Quang Dan, 48, and his new "Rising Sun" party are trying to fuse worker and peasant sentiment in support of his American-backed land-reform and free-unionism platform. And South Viet Nam's ethnic minorities-Montagnards, Chinese, Cambodians-were attempting to forge an 18-seat coalition...
Buffalo & Beef It was the sort of hopeful sentiment that independence inevitably evokes in black Africa. As Botswana's birthday gifts indicated, Africa's 33rd new nation of the decade faces a combination of problems that bode ill for future success. The former British colony of Bechuanaland is a Texas-size sprawl of sand, rock and scrub-thorn; elephants, buffalo and springbok outnumber the scrawny Tswana cattle on which its 576,000 people depend for a living; in the fifth year of drought, both cattle and men are facing starvation. As if that were not enough, black Botswana...
...playing with words when he says pro-black doesn't mean anti-white--either that or he has no feel for his andience, which is not likely. But in another sense he is giving a positive formulation to what, in a great number of young militants, is a destructive sentiment. The things springing up in Watts are not new street gangs; they are new grassroots political organizations...
...have taken the course and come out untouched by the unique experience. Many, however, tend to give a distorted picture when describing it, probably because it is easier to impress a listener with talse of a dangerous and scaring experience than to express the more subtle and less virile sentiment of group unity which evolves over the year. When the Harvard student talks about 120 to a 'Cliffe, he is apt to discuss the many times he "weathered the storms of a vicious, hostile session. You'd better keep away," he adds wisely...