Word: sentimental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This sentiment is fostered by a constant barrage of revolutionary rhetoric in the press, schools, and other institutions. But Cubans have not turned their cultural heritage into a revolutionary bludgeon, preferring that classical ballet and folkloric songs and dances serve to link the revolution to the cultural roots of the past...
SALT'S backers acknowledge that the dismay in Congress over the Soviet brigade has given the initiative, at least temporarily, to the treaty's opponents. This has dramatically reversed the situation that existed when Congress recessed for its August vacation, after holding almost a month of SALT hearings. Sentiment then had been building in favor of the treaty. The threat of crippling amendments had faded, and a number of undecided Senators seemed prepared to vote for the treaty if it were accompanied by an increase in defense spending. The Administration went along with that and was reported last week...
Cynthia Ankeney '80 expressed a common sentiment. "If anyone wants to, they can still take care of business," she said...
...that if there is any fear that it might be swamped, people are going to react and be rather hostile to those coming in." After that speech, Thatcher's standing in the polls shot up 11%, because she seemed to be granting respectability to anti-immigrant sentiment...
David Garth, a New York campaign adviser who works mainly for Democrats, said his private polls show a strong anti-Carter sentiment developing among the electorate. If the nomination does not go to Ted Kennedy, Garth predicted, "then it's going to go to someone else"-but not to Carter. Historian James Shenton of Columbia University said, "Carter increasingly looks like a man out of his depth...