Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French sentiment toward monarchies has eased noticeably over the past 200 years. So no heads turned, or fell, when the far-from-royalist President of France, Socialist François Mitterrand, 66, invited neighboring Monaco's Prince Rainier, 59, and his daughter Princess Caroline, 26, to the Elysée Palace for lunch. Caroline looked cheerful and radiant in what was her first official outing since the death of her mother Princess Grace last year. Monaco officials say she will be seen more and more at her father's side, assuming the ceremonial role that her mother once...
Although widespread public sentiment at the time held that the pair were convicted and sentenced to death because they were anarchists, the Committee concluded that the trial had been fair. The two men were executed on August...
...course will increase faculty awareness of student concerns. "Over 185 people signed up for the course. The numbers should send a very, very strong, clear signal to the faculty that we're not a bunch of troublemakers, that we're not isolated, and our actions are based on strong sentiment." Bisharat said this week...
...that University Hall and the Faculty Council--the folks who decide on the full Faculty's agenda--are uncomfortable bringing them out in the open, where Harvard's stances can be picked apart by dissenting minds. T.S. Eliot once observed that "Humankind cannot bear very much reality." The sentiment would seem to apply to those responsible for keeping the Faculty's agenda free of ethical dilemmas, for exempting University policies from the test of reality...
While Bridgestone builds a large share of the tires on Japanese cars and trucks bound for the U.S., it has only a small fraction of the American replacement-tire market. With protectionist sentiment against imports on the rise, Bridgestone Chairman Kanichiro Ishibashi, son of the founder, decided that the surest way to boost American sales was to produce tires in the U.S. Initially, Bridgestone officials talked of building a new plant, but Firestone Chairman John Nevin, who has been streamlining his firm, persuaded the Japanese company last February to buy the tire factory at LaVergne...