Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death in 1796, he was known not only as Caledonia's bard but as the Scottish Casanova. Popular legend made him a victim of wine, women and song. Less censorious, and more in accord with modern views, Byron saw Burns forever riding the pendulum of a split personality: "Sentiment, sensuality, soaring and groveling, dirt and deity." Some of the best evidence for and against Burns the man-his robust, personable letters-has been sifted for the first time in two decades by a Brooklyn College English professor, DeLancey Ferguson, in an apt selection that suggests that Byron was right...
...foreign reporting in U.S. dailies is generally weak, it is still better than coverage of the U.S. by the foreign press. "In Britain," says New York Herald Tribune London Bureau Chief Joseph Newman, one of the reasons that "anti-American sentiment is growing [is] the ignorance of an ill-and underinformed British public regarding the causes and facts of daily developments in the U.S. . . . With few exceptions, the British press has whittled its foreign news down to the vanishing point." British readers are unable "to follow the major events in the United States and to express any intelligent opinions about...
AFTERMATH OF THE ABSOLUTE starts with the premise that art has ceased to be mainly connected with religion: "The cult of Science and Reason [is] not just another metamorphosis of religious sentiment, but its negation." Modern painters, he adds, make art itself a sort of substitute for religion. "Modern art . . . does not sponsor any makeshift absolute, but. at least in the artist's eyes, has stepped into its-the absolute's-place...
Weakness in the anti-Communist camp is broader than U.S.British conflict. Often it has been the result of division and indecision inside the U.S. Government. But as the U.S. position under Eisenhower and Dulles became clearer and more consistent, it was bound to come into conflict with "neutralist" sentiment among the allies. In the last year of Truman-Acheson, the U.S.-British divergence was growing. It has become sharper...
...some reason, candidates for the Cambridge City Council decided in the last election that most undecided voters were holed-up near the Harvard Yard. And so, throughout the campaign, there was a constant parade of sound trucks through the Square and down Mass. Avenue. They blared patriotic sentiment and partisan propaganda until some students began to wonder if the democratic process was so wonderful after...