Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refreshing to read about things like sentiment, affection and even loyalty. Like a stubborn aunt and a boisterous nephew, our two countries have differences at every turn, but it remains the same family...
...contracts between the nations. Reagan was bothered by such an instant and severe public tilt toward the British. He decided instead "to go down the middle." The President told his aides that he did not intend in reality to be neutral but wanted a "balanced" public posture. American sentiment was with Margaret Thatcher, and so was Reagan. More than once he picked up the phone to reassure the Prime Minister that he was mindful of the enduring mutual commitment...
...spokesman for the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared last week that Jerusalem's aim in the West Bank was to block the growth and influence of the Palestine Liberation Organization. But he added, "Personally, I have reservations about how it is being done." Echoing that sentiment, members of the Labor opposition and many ordinary citizens have begun to speak out against the government's policies in the occupied territories...
...news writing and editing. Wendy L. Wall '83, the Crimson's editor in charge of minority affairs at the time, stated in a discussion with minority students last winter that the Crimson would put minority news writers on the staff if the paper could find qualified ones. Such paternalistic sentiment sounds quite ironic coming from an organization professing to be a liberal mouthpiece. Are members of minority groups ever qualified in the eyes of some whites? Since there are so few minorities writing for the Crimson, does any one group write most of the articles for this paper? Is that...
...EVEN as the presidency's constraints and responsibilities inevitably drive Reagan toward the mainstream, his overtures to anti-nuclear sentiment have been primarily tactical: His administration is not facing up to the challenges posed by the arms policies of his predecessors who nursed along the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks) process which he has discarded, or the more fundamental objections to the deterrence framework...