Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those of us in an age where electronic impressions guide opinion and sentiment more effectively than all else. Hickok's reporting during the Great Depression serves as a positive example of thoughtful reporting not shrill cant...
...film about Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn is remarkably devoid of any anti-American sentiment. Ironically, its illusion of reality is broken only once, when the director chides a Soviet, not an American, weakness. Confronting the corpse of Dr. Robinson in the graveyard, the tramp is unable to remember having killed him and mumbles, "It must have been the vodka...
...been a hard year to be a Zionist. Peace between Israel and its neighbors seems a distant prospect; rejectionism appears the prevailing sentiment on all sides. My earlier visions of revitalizing Jewish tradition in the sunny land of Milk and Honey have been rudely shunted aside. Perhaps now is not the time for illusions of any sort, rather for a response to the immediacy of the present conflict with realistic analyses of the situation and alternatives to present trends. It is not the time to give up on Israel, rather to change what needs changing and to maintain a spirit...
...those of us who were weaned on traditional Gilbert and Sullivan--who wore thin the D'Oyly Carte records as children and faithfully attended all the local and high-school productions--this sentiment was not only irritating--it was difficult to countervail. In the face of ever-harder times for new playwrights and non-commercial theaters, how could we justify our inordinate fondness for the costly iron-clad stagings of ten Victorian crowd-pleasers. What could we say to defend our cherished tradition and its domination of artistic resources that would not make us sound like David Stockman...
Right or wrong, the proposal is eminently worth discussing since it raises important questions about longstanding defense policies. But the plan was greeted with something less than enthusiasm at the White House. Faced with growing sentiment for a bilateral and verifiable freeze on the development and deployment of nuclear weapons, the Reagan Ad ministration did not need another challenge to its nuclear strategic doctrine-especially from certified members of the foreign policy Establishment. The article's authors were discarding a doctrine that some of them had helped shape: McNamara included the first-use option in his "flexible response" strategy...