Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show's most serious shortcoming is its scant supply of sentiment. Because the narrative hurtles immediately into action, it takes quite a while to involve the audience with the characters. Then, just when it has developed the Phantom as a pathetic blend of noble genius and physical freak, it turns him into an almost random murderer. In an ideal entertainment, there must be someone to root for. But as Alice noted of a wonderland no more demented or enchanted than the Phantom's opera house, they are all very unpleasant people here...
...author begins where the Tribune did, with Horace Greeley, a self- educated printer and "one of the nation's truly fabulous characters." Contrary to popular belief, Greeley never said "Go West, young man." He uttered a sentiment along those lines that was later paraphrased into immortality. But Greeley did found the Tribune in 1841; his thundering editorials against the spread of slavery helped set the climate for the Civil War; he was a prime mover in the creation of the Republican Party. Greeley's death in 1872 might easily have been followed by that of his now leaderless Tribune...
...frustration in dealing with her is that she's not a decision-maker, just essentially a buffer for the real decison-makers, whoever they are," says City Councilor David Sullivan. "But she does do a good job of transmitting community sentiment," he adds...
Still, the staunch anti-Communist side of Ronald Reagan would have little trouble suppressing that bit of sentiment were it not coupled with a new perception of what the Soviet Union is all about. As he has grown in office, Reagan has come to view the Russians no longer as cardboard-cutout Communists but as human beings in a multidimensional society, with a history that goes back beyond the 1917 Revolution. He has learned to appreciate why the Russian people, as opposed to their Soviet rulers, are so sensitive to charges of sociopathic behavior, why their concept of homeland...
THEY COME EVERY YEAR as surely as the leaves turn and fall. This year's round of tenure denials, however, are at odds with both student sentiment and, more important, with often-articulated University goals--better teaching and a better environment for junior faculty...