Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...extend him an invitation to the events of tomorrow afternoon and evening, and Friday afternoon in particular, as well as the entire program. As the effort of AWARE is to promote an awareness of differing attitudes, all points of view are relevant, for they reflect the diversity of campus sentiment...
...President to begin the land offensive within the next few weeks to bring the war to a relatively speedy end. Thus one central question in the decision could be bluntly phrased this way: How many American and allied soldiers' lives is it worth to cut off pro-Saddam sentiment among the Arab masses before it burgeons enough to threaten both the war effort and the eventual peace...