Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston lawyers decided to meet in historic Faneuil Hall, and then stand by, wearing green arm bands, to provide on-the-spot legal assistance if needed at an afternoon rally on Boston Common. Republican Governor Francis Sargent, who says of Viet Nam that "the want-to-get-out sentiment has grown rapidly," was to address a peace rally on the town green in suburban Lexington, where the first shot of the Revolutionary War was fired...
...Antiwar sentiment was not nearly so pronounced in the Midwest. In Chicago, TIME Correspondent Sam Iker stopped 16 people at random in the street, and discovered that just two had some idea of what the Moratorium was about. The only Chicago businesses that planned to close were nine art galleries. One reason for this heartland attitude may be last week's disruptive outbursts in Chicago by the extremist "Weatherman" faction of the S.D.S. (see story, page 24), which led to head-busting that in the Midwest eclipsed publicity for the nonviolent M-day protest. Still, even here, support...
...viewed from Paris, the talks now promise little progress for the next 12 or 13 months. Hanoi, this theory goes, will be content to do nothing until it sees how many more troops Nixon withdraws, how the South Vietnamese fare in replacing American forces, how much more antiwar sentiment develops in the U.S. The Communists may even be willing to await the outcome of next fall's congressional election. If that estimate proves correct, it will mean that the Nixon Administration has made a miscalculation. Its policy so far has been predicated on the assumption that conciliatory steps...
These scenes portray the military of the outside world as cruel and mindless, while the village survives as sensible and socially responsible. In the movie, Crichton's sentiment is very much weakened...
...statement was approved by about 200 people at a meeting last Wednesday. In presenting it to Pusey, the SMC representatives said that it "reflects the sentiment of the majority of students"; and they asked him to "respect the will of the majority...