Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike by university members would be a useful first step. Such a strike can solidify anti-war sentiment on campuses. and demonstrate the extent of that sentiment to the country as a whole. This effort would be particularly effective if organizers of the strike concentrate their efforts on those universities commonly regarded as bastions of Middle America. When it comes to making the American public aware of the anti-war movement's strength, five hundred students on strike at the University of Montana are worth five thousand on strike at Harvard. Those undertaking the strike should, however, be aware...
...themes, director Seltzer's first task was to condense and unify the action. The whole production ultimately flounders because he and his actors cannot fabricate a larger coherency out of this diffuse material. The net result is chaotic, although somewhere in all the dense overflow of rich color and sentiment, there were elements of genuine merit...
...environment's future depends in part upon whether the public sentiment mobilized last week will endure to force change, whether Americans will sustain their interest in the longer and duller tasks of cleaning up the land. Says George Wiley, director of the National Welfare Rights Association: "I hope this movement is not a fad, but the signs are not encouraging." Still, there are a few hopeful signs. A Harris poll published last week indicated that Americans, by a margin of 54% to 34%, are willing to pay more taxes to finance air-and water-pollution control. Three years...
...vote (229 to 105) was far closer than expected. But California Democrat George Miller, the science committee chairman, apparently reflected majority sentiment when he said: "The sympathies and interest generated by this flight, both in this country and around the world, cannot be sold down the river...
...banking system, which in turn lends it to businessmen and consumers. Under the consensus-seeking Martin, FOMC meetings followed a minuet-like ritual. Everyone had to make some sort of report on economic conditions, with Martin always speaking last and summing up what he thought was the majority sentiment. Under Burns, members speak only if they wish, and anyone can break in with questions. Burns himself speaks...