Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstration last week underscored that sentiment. It was called for 2 p.m. People began showing up at about 1:30 and never numbered more than 500. Adolfo, a shop clerk, viewed the crowd from the safety of the store and then explained why. "I want Noriega out, but my getting beat up isn't going to accomplish that." Observed a veteran politician: "Panamanians won't take the suffering. We are a bourgeois society...
ANNIVERSARIES tend to evoke the Hallmark in us all. We cannot help but proffer our pithy congratulations. Our sentiments belie our instincts in such events. But sometimes that sentiment happily marries itself with sincerity, as is the case in Lowell House Opera's 50th anniversary production of The Merry Wives of Windsor...
...Cole was a carefully orchestrated attack on affirmative action at Dartmouth. The Review claimed that affirmative action denigrates the value of a Dartmouth diploma, and that it is tantamount to racism. But this argument denies the existence of institutionally imposed barriers to minority achievement. It plays on latent racist sentiment, and it displays a profound insensitivity to the problems of minorities...
...real issue is whether a publication carrying the Dartmouth name on its masthead can be allowed to viciously harrass a professor, inflame racial tensions, and shamelessly play on racist sentiment. It is whether Dartmouth will tolerate students who deliberately exacerbate sensitive racial problems...
...smaller group briefly pressed the same demand near Moscow's Lenin Library last week until they were hustled away by plainclothes police. In August and again last month, demonstrators in the Baltic republics commemorated their brief independence between the two world wars. Faced with this surge in nationalist sentiment, Gorbachev has called for a special Central Committee session to deal with the issue...