Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eagly, a recipient who will work for the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, echoed the sentiment. The fellowship provides a "great opportunity to do a dream job," she said...
...nice sentiment, but I don't think that a child growing up in a poor, crime-ridden ghetto would buy it. Neither would Bosnians, Rwandans or the homeless people that line the streets of Cambridge. Before we built monuments to ourselves in the sky, we must halt the economic decay of our cities, alleviate human suffering and help our neighbors acquire the basic necessities of life. The pro-Freedom slogan reads: "The Space Station: It's About Life on Earth." Maybe, but dealing with poverty, crime, famine and war are about "life on earth," too. Once we've made some...
McGuire proposed to end coeduation at Harvard. When you've finished stomaching that sentiment as sincere, consider his argument: Harvard is a men's institution, he asserts, and women should leave. Radcliffe should be operated separately from Harvard, for women exclusively. McGuire's expressed opinions concern only men, defending men's education, and preserving masculinity as some stylized Greek idea. He never considers women or women's education, itself. Women are incidental to McGuire's master plan, where men wear the togas in the house...
Local meetings like the one in Bayville will occur for two months, but already the sentiment is clear. Says Russell Verney, U.W.S.A.'s new executive director: ``There is a great deal of energy out there behind a new party.'' It will take all that energy and more to overcome the many legal and procedural obstacles thrown up by states, but Perot is yearning for a new crusade...
This constant canvassing of public sentiment, one of two basic kinds of hyperdemocracy, is a straightforward outgrowth of information technology. The second basic kind -- the one more specifically linked to gridlock and to the budget deficit -- is a bit more subtle and more pernicious. And like the first one, it ultimately gets back to Madison. In addition to his dread of mass "passions," Madison had a second nightmare about "pure democracy": it "can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction...