Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Should've wrecked that old shack years ago," observed one. "I sort of liked it," said another timidly. "Progress," announced a third, "progress respects no sentiment...
Watching the huge trucks and big 'dozers revving their engines, we envisaged progress coming to Harvard. We saw the spectre of Mem Hall, reduced to its skeleton, spotlighted, awaiting execution. The crowd roared as the cables tightened. No time for sentiment, this...
President Eisenhower agreed, despite a personal feeling of post-election coolness to Stevenson. Then Adlai declined the ambassadorship, in tune with congressional Democratic sentiment that Democrats ought to steer clear of policy-making jobs. He volunteered instead to become a consultant who would review plans, make suggestions, still be free at meeting's end to criticize results that he did not approve. For the sake of at least that much bipartisanship, Dulles agreed. So did the President. To Stevenson from Ike went a letter suggesting that they discuss issues before they leave for Paris. The meeting will...
...signal to businessmen that it has changed its policy. The increasing worry of economists is not the state of business itself but the businessman's view of business, which has turned alarmingly sour in recent months. Said White House Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "Business is better than business sentiment." And for this lack of confidence the Federal Reserve has largely itself to blame...
Wang believes he has been successful so far in his efforts to stir up prosegregation sentiment at Ivy League colleges. "I've had responses from individuals at Columbia," he noted...