Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some pro-divestment activists not on the Board said the discussion will be a straw poll of Board sentiment. But Overseers said the meeting will not necessarily determine the true sentiments of Board members...
...comments from the bench, Garrity apparently disagreed with the sentiment behind the jury verdict, saying, "Harvard and its supervisors [did] their level best to assist the plaintiff through a very difficult period in her life...
...angels, the muralist of Lincoln Center and the fresco painter of the Paris Opera, the stained-glass artist who flooded interiors from the U.N. headquarters in New York City to Reims Cathedral in France to the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem with the soothing light of benign sentiment. His quasi-religious imagery, modular and diffuse at the same time, would serve (with adjustments: drop the flying cow, put in a menorah) to commemorate nearly anything, from the Holocaust to the self-celebration of a bank. When he died last week at the age of 97 at his home...
While this sentiment is well-intentioned, it misses the point. True, sexism is only one manifestation of the clubs' remaining elitism. But no one should regard admitting women as merely instrumental towards attacking the clubs' "real elitism." This analysis is sexist; it doesn't take women's rights as seriously as those of Blacks and other groups which have suffered from discrimination in this country. Imagine the outcry if final club members were to urge us to understand why white people want to be in a club with only whites and that Blacks should build their own clubs--as people...
...Gore gulped down the favored elixir of Democrats facing defeat: a healthy slug of old-fashioned populism. Suddenly the stiffly serious Gore began larding his speeches with nonstop promises to "put the White House back on the side of working men and women." There was nothing wrong with the sentiment except that Gephardt, Gore's main rival in the South, had long been telling the same blue-collar voters, "It's your fight...