Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rural areas. The psychic stresses of the 1990s are not so easy to evade--not when so many of them, from TV to being a latchkey child, are right in the home. There they can easily act on any kid who believes that "the world has wronged me"--a sentiment spoken from the darkest part of the human heart. And no place in America is more than a stone's throw from there...
BILLINGS, Mont.: The Thoreaus-with-guns Montana Freemen disdain to recognize the U.S. justice system. The system has been quick to return the sentiment. As opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of six Freemen for abetting other Freemen in their 1996 standoff with the FBI, four of them watched on TV from a holding cell, banished from the courtroom Monday for shouting and cursing. Two sat at the defense table but also refused to participate as their court-appointed lawyers began their opening statements...
...difficult to believe the claim of the League of United Latin American Citizens that Dinky, Taco Bell's Chihuahua, "is definitely a hate crime that leads to the type of immigrant bashing that His-panics are now up against. "The silliness here is not so much in the sentiment of the complaint, as in the overheated rhetoric. By speaking about the issues in a more hard-headed way, Minow may extend the life of identity politics for a while...
...week is over, but the sentiment should not be. We came to Harvard for an education, but producing papers and taking exams alone do not qualify one for entry into the society of educated men and women. In order to fully claim the right to call ourselves that, we must transform the passively-gathered knowledge of classes into active engagement with the larger community...
...what was Lott thinking? A careful reading of Clinton's still-stellar polls has the majority leader trying to get out in front of public sentiment, says TIME's Jef McAllister. "The public is sick and tired of the whole Lewinsky thing, and this helps Trent Lott distinguish himself from the other Republicans...