Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resumption of bilateral talks. Even then, Perle would be deeply skeptical about the wisdom of any arms control. "This stuff is soporific," he once remarked to Burt. "It puts our society to sleep. It does violence to our ability to maintain adequate defenses." Meese was echoing this sentiment when he said, early
...unity drive, Mondale's political agility may be tested more in seeking Jackson's support than in persuading Hart that his long-term political interests lie in bowing to the party's majority sentiment. After winning four delegates in New Jersey, where he got 24% of the vote, and picking up 29 delegates in California, Jackson candidly assessed what Mondale and the convention planners must do to satisfy him. Said he: "The bottom line is my self-respect, and that's what they must come to grips with...
Among Democrats of every philosophical tint there is some pick-a-woman sentiment. The enthusiasm seems motivated more by wishful political calculation than by feminist feeling. Says Wisconsin Party Chairman Matthew Flynn: "Mondale has only one chance to win this election-if he picks a woman. He has to take a gamble." Ferraro, 48, is the leading female contender. As an Italian American from the East, Ferraro would provide political leavening. Feinstein, 50, the impressive Jewish mayor of a hip city, would help compensate for the nominee's Midwestern squareness...
While most students stood on the sidelines and some observers attributed the recurrent rumblings to a small group of agitators, the underlying sentiment evidently ran deep. Law School Council polls and referenda revealed widespread dissatisfaction on a variety of educational issues, suggesting that the protests will outlive the graduation of their most outspoken movers this spring...
Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 spoke for what seems a general sentiment among personnel officers when he said that the new committee represents "no real shift in policy." Other personnel officers contacted recently agreed. Anne Oliver, a personnel officer in the School of Public Health, said that despite what seems to be a new mood on campus, "there's been no change in climate. The commitment has been here since I've been here...