Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest reason for the turnaround in sentiment seems obvious. It is hardly surprising that public gloom was so widespread late last year; in the judgment of many economists, that was when the most painful recession since World War II hit bottom. Though many indexes of the economy began rising with the new year, their message at first was unclear. As recently as March, those polled by the Yankelovich firm split evenly, 49% to 49%, on whether a recovery had or had not begun. Now the doubt has been resolved. In the current poll, 59% said the economy really has started...
...Vegas act out onto the Washington Mall. (One local radio station suggested that a two-drink minimum be imposed to make the entertainer feel more at home.) Doffing a headdress that had been presented to him earlier-Newton is part Indian-the singer milked the day's patriotic sentiment, kicking off with his own version of Neil Diamond's America, which ended with a shameless appeal to Martin Luther King's memory as Newton intoned a snatch of King's "I have a dream" speech. Mawkishness went on to new depths, even for a July...
...work is so specific on the surface, and so cryptic underneath, that it can serve any interpreter. His admirers and detractors "agree on only one point: Kafka "was the neurotic artist personified. He despised his work as an insurance clerk but would not quit. He shied from sentiment as a "fatness of feeling" and recoiled from sex: "Coitus is the punishment for the happiness of being together." He could write only about what he knew, and what he knew were his dreams. "My talent for portraying my inner life," he noted, "has thrust all other matters into the background...
Some officials at both the company and the agency were afraid that the floppy character was not in keeping with IBM's starched white-collar image. The question of whether the Tramp represented antitechnology sentiment, as epitomized in the most famous scene from one of Chaplin's best-known movies, Modern Times, was also raised. In the scene, Chaplin gets caught in the giant gears of a factory. But both the agency and IBM eventually concluded that the character, in Pankenier's words, "stands fear of technology on its head and would help the PC open...
Taking all this in, Congress nevertheless remained wary of any new pressures, whether from the White House, El Salvador or Honduras, to up the Central American ante. Congressional committees recently cut in half the Administration's request for $60 million in aid to El Salvador, and sentiment seemed to be building for a different, nonmilitary approach. Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington and Republican Charles Mathias of Maryland proposed a bipartisan commission on Central America, similar to the one that helped design the Marshall Plan after World War II. The panel, which would formulate a strategy of economic...