Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like an artist. It was this pompous Elgar who turned out the first Pomp and Circumstance march (its trio is also known as "Land of Hope and Glory"), along with The Crown of India, The Banner of St. George, Imperial March -all marked by bombast, contrived orchestral climaxes, syrupy sentiment. "I want to write something as typically and thoroughly English as roast beef and beer," Elgar said, and he succeeded...
During the early weeks of the $71.8 billion budget brawl, Lyndon kept himself uncommitted, heckled the Republicans from the sidelines while awaiting answers to a budget questionnaire that he had mailed out to 39,000 Texans. The replies, plus an Easter visit home, convinced him that economy sentiment was running strong. He saw a big political issue in the making, and he set his three-point party line...
...Sentiment in the University indicated yesterday that Princeton "had gone too far" in the extensive reorganization of the Army ROTC program announced last week...
...Overseers, in suggesting the creation of such a division, had come to recognize what many undergraduates feel is an unfortunate flaw in Harvard's art program--that little attention is paid to problems of the creative artist. The prevailing sentiment at Fogg was perhaps best expressed by Professor Rosenberg when he announced that creativity in the fine arts program is totally "extra-curricular," opposing it to the "proper guidance" which the department now offers. It is precisely this point of view which has driven many would-be art majors into a substitute field such as Architectural Sciences, which offers some...
...marvelous illusion of life in the Nazi ruling circles at the turning point of the war. The scene, as they paint it, is a seething roach nest of military puritans, rat-eyed party fanatics and servile chimney barons, of endless work, nonstop parties, public arrogance, private Angst, Germanic sentiment and rotting will, of spies, lies and a dirty, interminable fight for personal power. And through the scene but somehow above it, like let's-pretend Valkyries, wanders a tribe of strangely ambivalent German women: violent when they are wicked, passive when they are good...