Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moribund ideas of John Ruskin, it also rests on a plot of very desirable University property. Monuments need not be functional, but when one sprawls grotesquely over ground the size of two football fields, there is some question whether good sense has not been sacrificed to sentiment...
...optimism. After all, perhaps the weak state of the Soviet satellite empire, forcing the Kremlin to come to terms with a national Communism in Poland, might also persuade the Kremlin to come to terms with a national regime in Hungary. Instead, the exceedingly swift development of anti-Communist sentiment in Hungary made a fearful Kremlin resolve to make an example of Hungary...
...impetus toward history from eight great-aunts. Born in Bedford, Virginia, in 1899 to a northern father and a southern mother, he moved to Maplewood, N.J., at the age of one, but frequent visits back to Virginia enabled his aunts to bring him up in a fervor of Confederate sentiment. Strongly southern in feelings (his earliest published work, which appeared in a local paper when he was ten years old, was a pathetic poem on Lee's army), he become ambitious to rewrite the history of the Civil War "in a proper...
Republican Robert Braucher, professor of Law, also noted a considerable anti- Stevenson sentiment. But he felt it was chiefly and egghead reaction to Stevenson's attempt to become a "baby-Kissing" candidate...
...many people, one of the most interesting findings of the CRIMSON poll will be the fact that Ike carries the freshmen while Adlai carries the upper-classmen in the College. Precisely the same thing happened in 1952. Does this reflect the influence of pro-Stevenson sentiment in the Harvard Faculty? If no, what...