Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resisting pressure from the Begin government to sign a peace treaty. The U.S. dismissed such conjecture, pointing out that Israel's interests would best be served by having a strong neighbor on its northern border. But, as one U.S. analyst noted, "it says a great deal about current sentiment in Lebanon that so many suspect...
...Maryland Democrat Paul Sarbanes is tops on NCPAC's list. Since April of 1981--when its pollsters detected some anti-Sarbanes sentiment in Maryland--NCPAC has been airing TV and radio ads reviling the first-termer as a do-nothing who loves to bus little children and fritter away tax money. Never mind that the iconoclastic Sarbanes has voted against busing legislation 29 times, or that he voted against the recent Reagan tax increases; the Senator, says NCPAC's Joe Stephen, is "a liberal in everything he does...
...that hostility toward Jews historically increases during times of economic trouble like that the U.S. is experiencing now. "It won't be the blacks who are blamed," he says. "It's the Jews who are seen as dangerous, as powerful. Lebanon could contribute to that sort of sentiment...
...reformist views. Said he: "I have chosen my path. It is the path of my conviction, built on justice and fairness. It makes provision for the maintenance of civilized Christian standards in which South Africans can find each other, without destroying each other. " The next test of voter sentiment will come this autumn when by-elections are held in three more districts...
...Farmer Takes a Wife-that of a shy, likable but lightweight piece of homespun-and take on the raiment of authority. Looking back now, we see that there was no one else who could have played Tom Joad, no one else who could do what Fonda did-drain the sentiment and literariness out of that speech with his drawling directness and, in the process, encompass some of what is best in the American character...