Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strength of the antinuclear sentiment is especially surprising in the South, considering the region's traditional conservatism and its dependence on the military for its livelihood. In at least six of the region's states, the largest single employer is the Department of Defense. The board of supervisors in Loudoun County, Va., adopted a nuclear-freeze resolution last week, and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young has signed his city's petition. Physicians for Social Responsibility has 16 chapters in the South; last year there were none. Says South Carolina Lieutenant Governor...
Several crowd members expressed the sentiment that Fortinsky, a Harvard student and native New Yorker, was not familiar with their crime problems and self-defense needs. "We're talking two different environments," one representative on the committee said...
Williams resigned after Cranston and others unofficially assured him that the Senate would pursue an investigation into the FBI's methods in the Abscam operation, which also netted six Congressmen. In fact, by week's end sentiment on Capitol Hill was running harder against the bureau than it was against Williams. Many Senators were appalled by the climate of corruption created by the FBI to ensnare public officials. Says Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd: "I'd like to catch the s.o.b. who thought Abscam up. He should be hung by his heels...
Nora Seton captures effectively the predicament of the confused Penelope, who is caught between her roles of loyal wife and liberated woman With her ringing voice and facial expressions, she grows less awkward as the performance continues. The themes of women's rights, anti-war sentiment and the importance of the modern hero dominate the play--but no one theme is allowed to emerge...
...growth of Utopian collectivist thought (mainly, but not only, Marxist) and the recoil from the horrors of World War I. "The period of destruction is totally finished," announced a De Stijl maniesto in 1923. "A new period begins: that of construction." It is a younger version of he sentiment hauntingly expressed in Dryden's Secular Masque...