Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pattern of residential distribution by family type is entirely voluntary, deliberate and rational. It is hard to find any sound reason for the fashionable outcry 'to bring the middle-class family back into the city.' " In part, the suburban exodus reflects Americans' deep-seated anti-urban sentiment, the puritanical belief, in Poet William Cowper's words, that "God made the country, man made the town" (to which City Lover Oliver Wendell Holmes memorably retorted: "God made the cavern and man made the house...
...play does more than dabble in sentiment. It is wet with it. But Playwright Friel frequently and expertly applies the dry saving sponge of humor. Without O'Casey and Joyce, the play might have existed, but not so good a play. Friel utilizes reverie, flashback, and stream of consciousness, but his cleverest device is to divide Gareth O'Donnell into a public and private self played, respectively, by Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly. This palpable alter ego, invisible to the other characters, acts as a jazzy Greek chorus, a human pep pill, and a court jester. He laughs...
Most important, American public opinion would probably not support a large land war in South Vietnam. Already a band of Democratic Senators -- and some Republicans -- have voiced strong criticism of further escalation. Counter-escalation by the Communists will augment anti-war sentiment in this country which, in turn, will reinforce Hanoi's belief that we will soon abandon our efforts. This vicious circle, coupled with mounting diplomatic pressure from the neutral countries to end the war, will very likely induce the American people to accept disengagement after years of enormous waste...
...younger dons and writers supported Lowell on the ground that ability; not sentiment, should be the determining factor in the election. But many of them could not vote...
Missouri's early growth was hindered first by envious legislators from other counties who refused to appropriate funds for it, later by the belief that the university was a seedbed of rebel sentiment in the Civil War. In 1907 Missouri's medical school was one of many singled out in a study by Education Critic Abraham Flexner as scandalously incompetent, and was cut back to a two-year course...