Word: sentimentalized
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...doubt largely because Yeltsin is so popular, Gorbachev detests him, and Yeltsin heartily reciprocates the sentiment. They are trying to vanquish each other with public denunciations, parliamentary maneuvers, resolutions on ballots and demonstrations in the streets. But vicious as their rivalry is, it is nothing compared with the way politics used to be in the Soviet Union -- and might be again if the advocates of a return to repression were to prevail...
...CRIMSON does not support wars very often. There aren't too many necessary wars out there to fight. We hope America's success in this one does not breed a jingoistic overconfidence in military solutions. We hope the demonization of Saddam Hussein does not inspire anti-Arab sentiment back home, or an insistence on unreasonable reparations from Iraq. (The lessons of World War I are relevant today...
...officials today say Yeltsin has matured, though they wonder whether he has a serious strategy for building a political opposition to Gorbachev. His ability to muster popular outrage against the privileged center is unrivaled: the masses are drawn to him as the personification of anti-incumbent sentiment...
When prowar sentiment is being expressed, however, rules that limit expression of a political idea have a way of being waived, modified or ignored. Authorities at Cornell University decided not to discipline students flying flags from their dormitory windows, despite residential contracts that for safety and maintenance reasons prohibit hanging anything from the window. The University of South Carolina officially frowns on students' leaning out of their windows and using Super Glue to affix flags and banners to their buildings. But officials tolerated the practice at one patriotic freshman dorm, where displays inside the window would not have been visible...
...stupid, men are vain/Love's disgusting, love's insane/A humiliating business." This is hardly the typical love-song sentiment. But Stephen Sondheim is not a typical lyricist, and an evening of his persistent cynicism can be quite wearing. Fortunately, the creators of Love is in the Air have coated the bitterness of Sondheim's songs with enough comic relief to make for a delightful experience...