Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kelly shares with his customers the sentiment that baseball, and the artifacts which represent it are "priceless." So as many fans stop in with no intention of buying goods. Kelly displays many items he will never sell. Most of these lie in the Ted Williams alcove, a collection of Williams memorabilia larger than the Hall of Fame...
Cooney is unafraid of sentiment. One of his old school friends, Gary Gladstone, sits in a wheelchair. They insult each other merrily all day. When Gladstone goes off to bed, Cooney murmurs: "God, what a fighter he is. Cancer, bone transplants, amputated leg, everything. Do you hear the way he jokes? It's like nothing to him. How much courage can you have...
...discouraging signs, the continuing failure to make real progress on decreasing the risk of nuclear conflict remains the most disturbing. The dangers have long been common knowledge: the slaughter of hundreds of millions, the collapse of civilizations and perhaps the destruction of whole regions of the planet. Popular sentiment in this country and in Europe has finally mounted in organized opposition to these risks. Yet beneath the rhetorical softening of American and Soviet positions lurks the firm conviction that there is greater security in the current standoff than in perhaps allowing the other side to sneak into a position...
Nacht: There's no denying that the Reagan Administration has contributed to this anti-nuclear sentiment in the United States and in Europe, and perhaps it is the primary contributor. But I don't think they are, the Administration, is the only contributor. I would say that there are two other important considerations. One is with a lot of attention in the media to SALT and now START, and to its difficulties, more Americans are at least crudely aware of the fact that the arms competition between the Soviet Union and the United States is not abating in any fashion...
...political activism, Michael D. Tanzer '57, an avowed leftist, yesterday told about 40 people that involvement in political causes has always been "an ongoing Harvard tradition." He noted that while he was a student, the "concerns were McCarthysim, civil rights legislation, a hands-off Cuba movement and even antinuclear sentiment...