Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Believable for someone as attuned to injustice as Molina? Not really, but then it's the sentiment he's after--he hasn't yet been converted to consciousness by the Marxist...
...disappointing a sentiment this is from the formerly passionate mod who hoped he died before he got old and who wrote, in the rock-opera "Quadrophenia": "If you let them do it to you, you've got yourself to blame/It's you who takes the blame/It's you who feels the shame...
...with "Happy Birthday" and presented the grand old party with a book of newspaper clippings dating back to 1935. After riffling through the collection, the still spry Landon exclaimed, "Some I would like to burn up. Some I would like to throw in the air and cheer." A sentiment familiar to the best of politicians...
...chance, they did not shake hands but nodded distantly and hurried on. The very air felt diseased. People dodged to the windward of those they passed. They sealed themselves in their houses. The deaths went on, great ugly scythings. Many adopted a policy of savage self-preservation, all sentiment heaved overboard like ballast. Husbands deserted stricken wives, parents abandoned children. The corpses of even the wealthy were carted off unattended, to be shoveled under without ceremony or prayer. One-tenth of the population died before cold weather came in the fall and killed the mosquitoes...
...hurricane: an event of nature. Beyond that argument, which itself now seems ancient, it is probable that in most minds a vague dread of the disease is accompanied by a sympathy for those afflicted. Sympathy, alas, is usually directly proportional to one's distance from the problem, and the sentiment will recede if the virus spreads and the sympathetic become the threatened...