Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national platforms. In the House of Commons, Speaker Bernard Weatherill wryly appealed for "less euphoria." Eager Labor officials, out of office for eight years, announced a new campaign slogan: "The country's crying out for change." Unfortunately for both Labor and the Alliance, opinion polls do not substantiate the sentiment...
...music of U2 embodies a trend that differs markedly from the mood of the songs of the 1960s. Although philanthropy remains the general theme of the lyrics, the composers have abandoned their anti-Establishment tone and given way to a more humanitarian sentiment. Hunger, war and apathy are out; food, peace and empathy...
State President Botha appealed to white fears with a law-and-order campaign. He touched nationalist sentiment by frequently telling foreigners to butt out of South African affairs. Through a heavy newspaper advertising blitz, reinforced by intensive coverage on national television, the government charged that the P.F.P. was soft on terrorism and Communism and ready to sell out white South Africa to the country's blacks. The Afrikaans-language press harped on the same theme, making much of a photograph of P.F.P. Stalwart Helen Suzman being embraced by Winnie Mandela, wife of the long-imprisoned black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela...
...black. Everyone knows that Radcliffe athletes are also Harvard students, and everyone respects them for their achievements in both areas. There is no reason to think that "Radcliffe," in any area, represents anything less than "Excellence," or, for that matter, "Harvard," This statement does no spring from any wild sentiment of radical feminism, but from one of pride. Karen Weltchek...
Known as the Simpson-Rodino bill, the reform act was the culmination of a five-year effort in Congress to stanch the increasing flow of illegal immigration. Romano Mazzoli, the Kentucky Congressman who was a key sponsor of the original legislation in the House, sums up the sentiment behind it: "Any nation that doesn't have control over its borders is a nation whose central core might be threatened." The law is based on a carrot-stick principle: it offers legal status to long-term immigrants while mandating sanctions against employers who knowingly hire more recent arrivals. Illegal aliens...