Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tough "emergency law" in March 1982 they seized upon an incident in which contras blew up two bridges near the Honduran border. Among the law's provisions: prior censorship and detention without due process. As the contra attacks have continued, the Sandinistas have successfully appealed to nationalist sentiment while using the external menace as an excuse for not fulfilling earlier promises. Says Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra: "For a country to achieve democracy, it needs stability." The Sandinistas have also discovered that the fervor of their young people has provided them with an effective, albeit inexperienced corps of militiamen...
Ducks said in a press conference last week that although he favors keeping the drinking age at 20, he will not oppose the bill or veto it because "there is a considerable public sentiment to raise it." By abandoning his principles in search of a few votes from the "locket up" constituency, Ducks is betraying the college students who he has asked to aid him. It is unfair to ask students to be cooperative with his program when he is staying silent on a measure that severely limits their rights without improving the public safety. Figures convincingly show that raising...
Current case in point: last week's Maine straw poll. Such polls select no convention delegates and are not even a guide to voter sentiment, since they are often taken at meetings of the party faithful; the one in thinly populated Maine should have been especially meaningless. But after California Senator Alan Cranston packed a June Wisconsin caucus and won a straw poll there, Mondale vowed to tolerate |no more such upsets; his troops hit Maine like Eisenhower's armies assaulting the Normandy beaches. Fifteen paid Mondale workers and 35 full-time volunteers canvassed the state...
...fragment of sheet music whose words apostrophize the miseries of passion: "Begone, begone, ye children of Melancholy!" But set on its dark ground, with a rectangle of slaty blue and a marvelous, soaring shape of white paper-Mallarme's swan, making a personal appearance-its stilted sentiment turns into a concise image of sorrow and relief...
...Nearly 80 percent of young people conceive an anti-American feeling," which leads to rioting. Kim says "I never support such destructive manner, but I can understand their sentiment...