Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unsatisfied with what I've learned at the Bow, I decide to take a survey of underage undergrads, and I make the statistically unorthodox (if terribly convenient) decision to focus my attention on people I know. The dominant sentiment that emerges through a series of conversations and e-mails is that Krueger's death had a palpable impact on alcohol access. But there's no consensus about whether things have since relaxed. One member of the class of 2000 tells me that just after the MIT incident, "friends' I.D.'s which always worked were suddenly being looked at a little...
While he admitted that "almost no one" on the council shares his sentiment about bringing Sister Hazel, Hughes said the organization spends too much of its funding on student groups and not enough money gener- ating its own social activities...
...inhumane--in addition to likely being ineffective. A limited bombing strike would not get rid of Hussein. According to a U.S. military estimate reported in the New York Times last week, a four-day limited strike would cost 1,500 Iraqi deaths. It would further raise anti-U.S. sentiment among the people of the Middle East. And it would alienate a number of our allies...
...When President Khatami put out the peace feelers last year, he was reflecting public sentiment," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Most ordinary Iranians don't share the leadership's animosity toward the U.S." Still, the conservatives managed to force Khatami to be more cautious in his calls for renewed contact between the two nations. The wrestlers may be the first of a number of American delegations to visit Iran in the near future, but it'll be some time ? and even more burned flags ? before the U.S. reoccupies the embassy it left behind...
Campus activists want to cut at the roots any semblance of rising anti-progressive sentiment because they know they are in the distinct minority at Harvard. Disregarding the political leanings of Harvard students, which are decidedly leftward, those who only want to get to "medical school or Wall Street" (Green's rough synonym for "ignorant immoralists") easily constitute a majority of students, a decidedly apathetic majority. Lacking numbers, the minority of activists knows they are finished if they lose their supposed moral authority and their (still) overwhelming public prominence...