Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...light of this sentiment, last week's announcement of the resignation of one longtime Corporation member, Charles P. Slichter '45, presents Harvard's leaders with a chance to reaffirm their commitment to the academic community...
...trouble." --A passage from the autobiography of Sir Kenneth Dover, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Trevor Aston was a tutor in the college and was known for a drinking problem. Aston eventually committed in a story in the New York Times yesterday; Dover expressed puzzlement about why this sentiment was controversial. "The whole point of an autobiography is to tell the truth, as far as I'm concerned," he said...
Today, no one is protesting over regional sentiment, but students say prejudice based on region can be a serious problem...
...Sentiment on GATT doesn't divide along partisan lines. Before the task fell to Clinton, the agreement was championed by Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Ranged against it now is a loose front that runs from labor unions, environmental groups and Ralph Nader to protectionist Senate Democrats like Ernest Hollings of South Carolina and Republicans like Phil Gramm of Texas. But Gingrich is a longtime GATT supporter who says he will make sure the agreement passes the House vote scheduled for Nov. 29. So the man who holds the cards is incoming Senate majority leader Bob Dole...
...believe in anything. The real question is, Do we believe in Santa Claus movies? There are two on screens at the moment, and the best that can be said for them is that they offer a clear-cut choice: you can take your seasonal dose of sappy sentiment either in stuffy traditional or tacky modernist form. Miracle on 34th Street, as befits a remake we probably don't need, offers us a Santa Claus cut along classic lines -- round, twinkly and played with a nice, comforting restraint by the redoubtable Richard Attenborough. The Santa Clause presents us with an Anti...