Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directors-abrupt switches from black-and-white to color, for example-to have won this year's Cannes Festival Grand Prix. But his does-she-or-doesn't-she story, banal to begin with, sounds like nothing so much as an existentialist "Dear Abby" column in which sentiment has melted into sentimentality...
Another Goal. As if echoing that sentiment, the 25,000-member American Trial Lawyers Association last week reversed its previous opposition to the OEO plan as "costly, wasteful and inferior." Meeting in Los Angeles, the association warmly endorsed the idea and offered the aid of all members.* Even more approvingly, the American Bar Association last week urged Congress to double the OEO legal-aid budget to "a minimum" of $52 million. The goal is not only equal justice for the poor, said the A.B.A. It is also urgently needed "respect for law" in the "greatest breeding ground of the criminal...
...deep blue of the Indian Ocean, and their job is to help African countries prepare modern math textbooks. Said William Martin, 55, of M.I.T., the head of the workshop: "Don't go thinking the sponsors aren't getting their pound of flesh." His wife echoed this sentiment by describing a dance at the hotel: "There were the locals twisting and smooching in the moonlight. But where were the professors? They were spread all around here working on trigonometry problems...
Echoing a common sentiment, President Archie K. Davis of the American Bankers Association demanded that the President send to Congress "as soon as possible" a detailed plan for cutting domestic spending and raising taxes "to eliminate dangerously mounting inflationary pressures." He blamed "the failure of Government economic policies" for today's shortage of mortgage money and the interest-rate war between commercial banks and savings and loan associations. Banking, he said, "is being castigated for affairs over which it has very little control...
...said that events of the past summer had resulted in a large "withdrawal of sentiment" by whites from the civil rights movement...