Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entailed a certain amount of repetition; to the skeptic, the later Moore seemed to be running a one-man academy of stones and bones. "Less is more, and Moore is a bore" was what one heard from English art students hip to Anthony Caro and David Smith, and the sentiment was echoed by people who had forgotten, or not known, his stubborn efforts to get modernism a hearing among the art-hating English 30 years before. All that is over, but the sculpture remains. When the best of it has been winnowed out -- which will take years, for the oeuvre...
Palmer strained over his third try. "There's $50,000 at stake in this tournament," thought Player. "Why do I want him to knock it in?" Citing "sentiment," Palmer stayed with the five iron, though the day called for a six. He knocked the ball over the green, grimaced and then smiled. "I didn't want to leave it short," he said...
...President James Bryant Conant '13 was a strong supporter of the public school system and during his tenure established the scholarship system that drew talented students from around the country to Cambridge. He recognized that Harvard must never lose sight of the entire continuum of the educational system, a sentiment that the new endowment captures...
...similar sentiment may soon apply to the manufacturers of spermicides. Earlier this year, a jury awarded $4.7 million in damages to a woman who claimed that her child's birth defects resulted from her use of Ortho-Gynol jelly. Most scientists have found the product safe, and the company, which is appealing, insists it has no plans to remove its foams and gels from the market. But, says Ortho's James Murray, "if the costs of litigation begin to exceed earnings, we couldn't very well continue...
...After a brief breeding reprieve -- to produce not racers but simply high-quality piglets -- she gets a one-way ticket to the abattoir, along with all this year's other stars. Says Holding, who plans to retire from the racing game this year: "There's not a lot of sentiment in this business...