Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with her husband, more is definitely more. Her idea of casual is to wear a one-inch ruby-and-diamond ring with matching ruby earrings. Her 40- carat diamond wedding ring covers the lower half of her ring finger. She asserts that size does not matter. "It's the sentiment that counts," she says in her accented English...
...didn't realize we were tapping into amotherload of sentiment against the Star Warsprogram. So great is the unease that physicistsare readily signing up," Kaku says...
TURTLE DIARY Two eccentrics (Glenda Jackson and Ben Kingsley) rescue a pair of tortoises from imprisonment at the London zoo. Harold Pinter writes comedy without wasting sentiment, John Irvin directs it without wasting motion...
TIME's board members expressed hope that the improving trade deficit would dampen sentiment in Congress next year to produce a barrier-laden trade bill. Yet Congress may be tempted to pass protectionist measures under the cover of the new, sexier buzz word of competitiveness, according to Board Member Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution and former chief economic adviser to President Carter. Schultze warned that under the patriotic banner of competitiveness, overzealous legislators may fail to differentiate between healthy steps to boost efficiency (example: increased worker training) and potentially harmful measures to shelter industries (example...
Craig echoes this sentiment, but nonetheless believes students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds bring an important alternate viewpoint into their encounters with affluence. Too often, she says, these experiences are ignored by a system unused to dealing with diversity...