Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard O. Covey, 42, pilot. "If I thought we were the only five guys in the whole world willing to fly Discovery, it would be different. But I'm in an office of people who are hungry to go sit on that rocket." Covey's sentiment amply reflects his gung-ho attitude about NASA's return to space. Covey rose to the rank of colonel after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1968 and studying aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue University. He flew 339 combat missions in Viet Nam, then became an Air Force weapons-system test pilot...
...fine sentiment, perhaps. But in the pages following this new statement of purpose, articles on gardening and fashion are interspersed with advertisements promoting mascara and exercise machines. So much for politics, which is relegated to a few articles buried in the magazine and to one-liners faintly hearkening back to feminist rhetoric of the past...
Other non-honors seniors share Ginsberg's sentiment. "I feel like things [at Harvard] are geared toward those who write a thesis," says non-honors history concentrator Millard B. Rice '89. "The whole tutorial system climaxes with a thesis...
...proposed exchange program is yet another attempt to work around the problem created by Harvard's failure to hire minority scholars. The attempts come out of a genuine desire to help and the sentiment should be enocuraged. But all such creative solutions only point out the necessity for the University to swiftly formulate a centralized strategy for identifying qualified Black candidates and then bringing them to Cambridge. For real and for good...
...first Catholic to stand a serious chance of becoming president. It was an issue that he was Catholic. Not because it should have been, or because it was strategically advantageous for his opponents to make it one, but because this nation's history of anti-Catholic sentiment mandated that...