Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the general German sentiment against national, or even party guilt, even the Bonn government is falling into line with the nationalists. All parties in the recent elections stressed their own hyper-nationalist policies, and last spring the Munich radio revealed that 85 percent of the Bonn Foreign Office were undisputed ex-Nazis a higher percentage of party men than served under Hitler...
...constant dangers to the religious spirit in a country such as ours is the tendency to regard religion itself simply as the fruit of pious sentiment; or to hold, as the doctrinal basis of religion, what we may call the common factor in the religious opinions held by various groups; or to be content with the great religious truths of the natural order which can be known by unaided human reason. It is true that the founders of this country . . . gave as the religious foundation of their work only the truths of the natural order-belief...
...simple story is told without heroics or false sentiment. It is mostly a movie of waiting and of silences at the pithead and in the pit as the rescuers work their way toward the trapped men. "There's nothing to do but wait," says one miner's wife stoically. Except for an occasional Scottish song, the picture has no musical score-only the constant sounds of ticking clocks, dripping water and heavy breathing...
Explaining his alleged reneging on last spring's agreement, Grote said he considered that plan temporary and "that it was necessary at the time to have agreement, since Eliot and Lowell refused to cooperate." He reconsidered his stand this fall "in the face of House sentiment and because I believe in free competition...
Suffering and sighing through puppy romances, they took turns loving the lovely Marisa, a girl who was at least as strong on sentiment as she was on sex. It was all very serious, of course, but also a little comic, and Pratolini does a neat job of simultaneously pitying and teasing his adolescents. He also succeeds in capturing the look of young love. "My companion," muses Valerio, "was a girl of 16, with a crown of golden hair, a shining innocent face; she wore green wool gloves and shoes with medium heels and knitted stockings that came...