Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Supreme Court will resolve this debate will probably not be known until the end of the term in June. But most court watchers suspect that the exclusionary rule is in for a rough time. Sentiment on the court is thought to be narrowly divided, and the outcome could depend on Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who succeeded Potter Stewart, an exclusionary-rule backer; O'Connor seemed to favor a good-faith exception at her 1981 Senate confirmation hearing. That change could produce a new majority, one that favors closing a loophole for criminals at the risk of opening...
...covers recounting the fighting in Lebanon brought 2,461 letters. It soon became clear that events had triggered a sharp shift away from the support TIME readers have traditionally given Israel. More than 700 wrote after the Oct. 4 cover story on the Beirut massacre, "Israel, a Shaken Nation." Sentiment was 3 to 1 against the Israelis. "My sympathy for Israel's struggles is wearing thin. I am revulsed beyond sympathy," said one. Another agreed: "The underdogs have become the dogs of war, and we have unleashed them...
Pinter also overturns one's stylistic expectations. When the English upper crust gets to pip-pipping about infidelity, the viewer settles back prepared for a comedy of manners. What he gets here is very little comedy, a great many mannerisms, and none of the sentiment that Noel Coward used to employ to make things come right at the final curtain. Betrayal must be understood, then, as a critique of a theatrical style and of unthinking audiences who have been having an amoral laugh and a tickle with it for years...
...phemomenon is not original to the Reagan administration. More than one president has swept into office on a wave of anti-govenment sentiment. When Carter arrived in the capital, his keen distrust of the natives undobtedly miffed more than one D.C. veteran. But Reagan's attacks on government cut deeper-they denounce not merely the efficiency but the very raison d'etre of fistfuls of government agencies...
...ideological war will cost $85 million in the next two years. "The more we look at this thing, the more nervous I become over it." said one Republican, who accurately guessed that most African and Asian nations would consider the project a foreign intrusion. Shultz replied with patriotic sentiment: "Don't be nervous about democracy, about holding that torch up there." He bolstered his argument by calling the program "critical to our national security" and by promising the CIA would not be involved...