Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a sport is transformed overnight by the arrival of new technology--graphite tennis racquets, fiber-glass vaulting poles, high-backed ski boots--the change makes everyone queasy. But performance trumps sentiment. The sport of speed skating is at one of those pivotal junctures, with good old tradition being upended by a Dutch contraption called the clap skate. Unlike the conventional skate heel, the heel of the clap skate's boot detaches from the blade like a one-way seesaw. The skater's heel lifts off the blade, lengthening the blade's contact time on the ice, then the blade...
This backlash against the liberalism that has dominated Harvard since the '60s is, I have heard many theorize, due to the campus's inability to identify with the progressive left any longer. People who think about the world outside Harvard are weird, popular sentiment goes, and it has become cool to flaunt anti-progressivism. This was nowhere more clear than in the recent Undergraduate Council presidential elections...
...Saudi Arabia - The Saudis would be happy to see the leader of their menacing neighbor to the north go. But, mindful of local anti-American sentiment, has yet to give permission for American jet fighters to launch raids into Iraq from its bases...
Chang agreed with this sentiment, saying that most students need to at least know how to be independent...
...late-night comedy monologues--which serve as a kind of trip wire for public sentiment--Clinton's philandering has never been in doubt. He has long been an easy joke, a shorthand figure of fun right up there with staples like Michael Jackson and Pamela and Tommy Lee. Indeed, last Wednesday night as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was first breaking, Jay Leno scored a twofer on the Tonight Show with a lame joke about the Lees' wanting to see Clinton's home videos (he did a lot better with his line that Clinton's may be the second presidency...