Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...widespread respect for Colin Powell has been well-documented by the numerous polls and the success of his recent book tour. But this vague national sentiment becomes more important when grassroots groups begin to organize to provide an electoral base for the retired general. These groups can translate public admiration into votes for Powell in next year's election...
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With the Simpson verdict and with the country about to turn the autumn corner into the 1996 presidential election, I keep returning to the sentiment that Americans could find, if they were looking, in the old hymn "Lord, plant my feet on higher ground." King was right: The content of one's character, not the color of one's skin, is what matters. Stop defining people by color, by groups (blacks, whites, Asians, gays). Stop practicing the politics of tribal identity. But you would have to rescind a universe of political correctness and poisonous identity politics in order to restore...
...suspicion lingers that Woody Allen deserves a good spanking, and not from a prostitute with a heart of gold. But, listen: humor and sentiment can triumph over stern morality any day. Once the picture gets going, it reminds us that Allen is also an artist with an acute feel for movie romance. So scruples be damned. This time, Mighty makes all righty...
...Bettmann sold his business to a small publishing firm and retired to Florida. For him, the sale was an occasion of satisfaction without sentiment."I hate nostalgia," he said, "but I've made a hell of a living from it." So have his successors, who have continued to make the Bettmann credit line ubiquitous in print. Now a few taps on the computer keyboard will bring it to the screen. That prospect pleases the 92-year-old Bettmann, who pronounced himself delighted "to have seen my original acorn nourished and cultivated into a formidable digitized...