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Word: sentimentally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's America (and, it may be, in Ueberroth's), there has been a fundamental shift in values. From the beginning, American sentiment has been in tension between the values of freedom and equality. Under Franklin Roosevelt, and for several generations afterward, the official American inclination has been toward equality. In Reagan's America, the value of freedom has reasserted itself, sometimes at the expense of the gentler instincts. The Olympics expressed the preference perfectly: the freedom to win --athletics as Darwinian theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Proud Again: Olympic Organizer Peter Ueberroth | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

Tsongas writes of how he will "partake of God's blessings" That's part true sentiment and part bathetic kitsch born of too many smiles, speeches, handshakes and babies kissed. We can, however, afford Tsongas the too noble sentiments in order to learn about sentiments that are infinitely more mundane-but more important...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Politics and Family | 1/4/1985 | See Source »

...Harry Rosenzweig. G.O.P. Congressman John McCain of Arizona, who may run for Goldwater's empty seat in 1986, thinks his timid colleagues are secretly pleased by the plain-spoken provocations. Says McCain: "When you hear Barry Goldwater make a statement, and God knows he's quotable, the sentiment on the Hill is, 'Thank God Barry said what I didn't dare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speaking His Mind | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...Grenadian parties only last August. During the low-key, three-month campaign, Blaize and his supporters emphasized the themes of economic development and safeguards against the abuse of power, while Gairy's G.U.L.P. ran under the slogan "Americans must stay forever." New Jewel loyalists tried to whip up sentiment over alleged CIA interference in the elections, and staged rallies honoring their murdered leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grenada: The Man in the Gray Fedora, Herbert Blaize | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

Committee members made no decisions on any of these options, deferring judgment indefinitely. College observers and several Undergraduate Council members are understood to believe, however, that sentiment is growing for some solution to the related issues of overcrowding, off-campus life and Dudley House...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Dudley May Offer Answer to Crowding | 12/11/1984 | See Source »

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