Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sentiment is understandable, but in the view of many nuclear experts, the proposed solution is impractical and unwise. While most freeze resolutions call for measures that are "mutual and verifiable," a comprehensive freeze, almost by definition, would meet neither of those criteria. If the U.S. agreed to suspend all production of new nuclear weapons, then congressional watchdogs, Pentagon whistle blowers and investigative reporters would make sure that the ban was observed. There would be no similar self-policing in the secrecy-shrouded, security-obsessed U.S.S.R. Also, it would be extremely difficult for American intelligence agencies to monitor Soviet compliance with...
...Mozart," he states at the outset, and it is true Despite the interesting analysis of music and letters which pervades the text, the most frequent effect it produces is frustration--sometimes at a particularly annoying interpretation (as when Hildesheimer relegates The Magic Flute to "the lower ranks of sentiment") and sometimes simply at the inadequacy of the existing evidence on Mozart's life and thought...
Still, not caring about baseball is pretty sad. But I can accept that attitude rather easily. Different people have different tastes Now, however, popular sentiment no longer runs along the lines of just: "I don't consider baseball worthwhile and interesting enough to bother or concern...
...another survey found that three out of four of those polled would refuse to inform on a serious tax evader if they had evidence to convict him. A slogan spray-painted in red on a bridge spanning Boston's Charles River seems to sum up a growing sentiment: TAXATION is THEFT...
...leader of AIM, was convicted of the murders on circumstantial evidence. Employing trial transcripts and FBI documents secured under the Freedom of Information Act, Matthiessen argues that the authorities were out to get Peltier long before the crime and that the FBI infiltrated the movement and provoked anti-AIM sentiment among the majority of law-abiding Indians...