Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...land that lie before the logger's axe. Fights are inevitable when the economic interests of the present collide with the desire to preserve ecosystems for the future. But one of the surprising lessons of the bruising battles over the environment in the past few years is that green sentiment is again a powerful political force. That's why Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski failed to ram through legislation that would have facilitated timber cutting in the Tongass National Forest. In California the Clinton Administration reached an agreement that would protect Headwaters, a privately owned grove of ancient redwoods that...
...outdoors, and I'm not talking about lions, tigers and bears. "Even on well-lit paths and at appropriate times," Assistant Dean of the College Virginia Mackay-Smith '78 is quoted as saying, "all we can do is take steps to reduce the odds" of crime. Violence exists, common sentiment seems to dictate, and the most we can do is be informed and try to hedge our bets...
...amount of material success could satisfy their desires for meaning. That generation which had been so eager to conquer the cold industrial world, now looks fondly upon the simpler time of its growing up and is anxious to restore it at any price. This is the type of sentiment upon which Disney hopes to capitalize by offering a town centered around its school and community. It appears as if the current idea of the American dream is less about having two cars in every garage than it is about having two parents in every household...
...capitalism calls for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. The human spirit and the quest for truth which we so much value in our academic studies and in our political debates are also embodied in the religions celebrated by students in the University. Their expression of their religious sentiment is not only a right, it is a good. Harvard should value diversity in its truest sense--diversity of beliefs--because from the interaction of undergraduates on this plane, students will both better be able to forge their own synthetic world view and to defend that perspective when required...
...lyrics run, "in ev'ry man's life/ When he gets tired of foolin' around/ Juggling hearts in a three- ring circus/...Forever, forever, baby, I want U forever./ I wanna keep U 4 the rest of my life." Not Ira Gershwin exactly but an apt and amusing sentiment...