Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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MISTODIMAN . . . a mixture of "method" and "sentiment" . . . It's a word I made up to describe images and sounds. -Leaud...
...Inducement. That kind of Pentagon commitment to a volunteer Army represents more of a yielding to political pressures than a solid conviction that the idea is sound. As one means of alleviating antiwar sentiment...
...alone at any time in the immediate future. Still, as a recent terrorist manifesto put it, "We have had our fill of promises of jobs and prosperity while we always remain the cowering servants and bootlickers of the big shots." The moderates might agree with the sentiment, but their similarity to the terrorists ends at that point. The ballot box may be discouragingly slow, but at least it is not stained with blood...
...THERE IS only one art that moves me: architecture." T.E. Hulme said it, and the sentiment points toward an important notion about design. The buildings around us are the significant objects in our landscape, and if a place is depressing-or dazzling, or manicured, or red-it can call up a corresponding emotional reply in us. An architect designs a building, it is constructed, and suddenly a new fact has insinuated itself into our consciousnesses. Few other arts can claim such immediacy of impact, or assault...
...have seemed the perfect man to halt Rockefeller's march to a fourth term; he seems considerably less so in October. He has just barely managed to stay in close contention. He has been handicapped by factors he cannot alter: a shift to the right in voter sentiment and a personal campaign style that has changed in the course of four months from disastrous to mediocre. But if he does not excite the voters, he clearly gets their respect as he makes his rounds in three-button suit (all buttoned and a flag pin in the lapel...