http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/17029/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/revolt-against-sincerity <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/l-brent-bozell-iii">L. Brent Bozell III</a> </div> </div> </div> <p ><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Washington Post</i> writer Linton Weeks recently wrote a fascinating big-picture essay about the long, sad decline of sincerity and sentiment in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>, symbolized by the public loathing of the 1975 Morris Albert pop song “Feelings.” It wasn't merely the whoa-whoa-whoa chorus that drove the criticism, he suggested, but the mere act of the singer putting the heart on the proverbial sleeve that became phony, cheesy, hopelessly square. </p> <p >    </p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/revolt-against-sincerity" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Culture Education sentiment sincerity SnarkAges society Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000 admin 28307 at http://archive2.mrc.org