Word: sentimentale
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In 1955 Robert and Carol Bly "went to hide out at the farm" on the edge of the Lutefisk Capital of the World. Lutefisk is a Norwegian dried fish, an item of sentimental immigrant nostalgia and distinctly an acquired taste. Madison has a large metal sculpture of the lutefisk beside...
Nobody has a life anymore, Hollywood tells us, only an afterlife. By now you are familiar with all those transcendental rehab movies -- Ghost and its spectrally sentimental cousins -- in which people return from the void to get a chance to say (What else?) "I love you." Audiences lose themselves in...
Of course, this anthropocentrism runs against the grain of a contemporary environmentalism that indulges in earth worship to the point of idolatry. One scientific theory -- Gaia theory -- actually claims that Earth is a living organism. This kind of environmentalism likes to consider itself spiritual. It is nothing more than sentimental...
The sentimental environmentalists will call this saving nature with a totally wrong frame of mind. Exactly. A sane -- a humanistic -- environmentalism does it not for nature's sake but for our own.
Tomassoni, who would later become one of the collegiate game's best recruiters, was sought by both the Rensselaer and Notre Dame programs. He never looked at sentimental favorite University of Minnesota, despite being a Golden Gopher fan.