Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally, we must remember that at the heart of the indecency bill is an arbitrary moral judgment of what is good speech and what is bad speech. It's disturbing that 200 years of democracy have not properly instilled the sentiment that the market place of ideas, and not a heavy-handed government ordinance, should regulate how people express themselves...
...ooze piety in public? Why don't private celebrations suffice? It strikes me that the only compelling reason has to do with communal celebration and education. Someone is inspired by the beauty and depth of his tradition and wants to share it with his peers. In fact, that sentiment is perfectly in line with what Harvard is always encouraging us to do. Bring your diverse backgrounds, knowledge and experience to this campus, we are told, and the whole University will be the richer...
...their caste and color. Best-selling authors have, in recent years, assured us of their limited intelligence and low degree of "civilizational development." As a woman in Arizona said in regard to immigrant kids from Mexico, "I didn't breed them. I don't want to feed them"--a sentiment also heard in reference to black children on talk-radio stations in New York and other cities. "Put them over there," a black teenager told me once, speaking of the way he felt that he and other blacks were viewed by our society. "Pack them tight. Don't think about...
...Simsbury, Connecticut, the site of the International Skating Center, enjoying an idyllic life and training with American and other expatriate Russian skaters--many of whom accompanied Katia and Daria to Moscow for Sergei's funeral on Saturday. One of those was Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton, who offered this sentiment last week: "Kurt Browning once said the only flaw in G and G's program was that it wasn't long enough. The same can be said for Sergei's life...
...Right now sentiment on Capitol Hill is pretty strong against U.S. troop involvement in the Balkans, and not just among Republicans," says TIME's Congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. The House has already passed two non-binding resolutions objecting to the President's plan to send 20,000 U.S. soldiers to Bosnia to help enforce the peace. Clinton began his own lobbying effort last week with a long letter to Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In announcing the accord, the President argued that the American troop commitment was "essential." "Without us," he said, "the hard-won peace would be lost...