Word: sentimentalized
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Elsewhere the message was mixed, but dissatisfaction with the status quo was the unifying theme. In Mississippi, Texas, New Jersey and Virginia, incumbents were washed out of office by a wave of antitax, antirecession, antigovernment sentiment. Though both parties posted gains as well as losses, the results reflected a sour, throw-the-bums-out mood that threatened officeholders everywhere. Only Washington State seemed to buck that trend by turning down a ballot initiative that would have imposed strict term limits on the state's congressional delegation. But milder term-limitation measures applying to local officials were approved in Houston...
...Arab states from fully embracing Washington. It continues to spawn terrorist attacks throughout the region, including strikes on American targets like last week's rocket hit on the U.S. embassy in Beirut. And it compels Washington to remain fixated on Israel's security, a posture that fuels anti-American sentiment -- and costs U.S. taxpayers a bundle...
...protest. They issued an ultimatum: If the military did not end its discriminatory practices within two years, Harvard would cut all ties to ROTC. Then-president Derek C. Bok and thendean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney expressing the same sentiment...
Perhaps they neglected to test the candidates' oratorical skills. Or perhaps they purposefully selected someone who, insecure in the harsh light of the public arena, would be unable to appeal to mass sentiment in order to override their wishes. Whatever the explanation, in selecting a poor orator as president, the search committee has not served the University well...
...beginnings," but the mood of nostalgia that the songs evoke is somewhat self-conscious. In his own words, the director (and writer, and choreographer), Stuart Ross, is trying hard to avoid any hint of being "goopy or goody-two-shoes." Unfortunately, Ross ends up with an awkward mix of sentiment and goofiness...