Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lengthy debate marked by several heated outbursts, the assembly passed a resolution stating, "The Student Assembly, committee of the whole, recognizes the effort of a large number of organizations to oppose the Harberger appointment. We acknowledge this sentiment, and urge the Administration to reconsider the Harberger appointment, and re-form the search committee with fair and democratic representation of all groups at Harvard/Radcliffe...
Harvard researchers originally lobbied for passage of pound seizure in 1957 in an attempt to curb anti-vivisectionist sentiment stemming from the marked increase in dog-nappings. Pound seizure laws permit researchers to purchase dogs for three dollars apiece from public pounds. In states without pound seizure laws, stealing dogs and then selling them to researchers is an extremely lucrative business. In addition, pound seizure laws reduce the costs of research--researchers would otherwise pay $200-$300 for farm-bred dogs. To date, there are only nine states which still have pound seizure laws...
...pound seizure were repealed we could still get dogs, but we could only operate normally for a year or so," Dr. Hunt says. "If Harvard continued to get dogs from pounds they would be going against the intent of the law. If there is a strong enough sentiment against the use of pound dogs to get the pound law repealed, then the next step would be to outlaw dealerships," he adds...
...complicated impulse has stirred in Americans' thinking about their country and its place in the world. Patriotism has reappeared, along with its scruffy little half brothers, xenophobia and chauvinism. In an odd but exactly appropriate way, the new sentiment was crystallized most purely in Americans' jubilation over the U.S. hockey team's performance in the Olympics-the Huckleberry Finn American underdogs whipping the Soviet superteam and then going on for the gold medal...
...people upon another set of people that has not been perpetrated in the name of patriotism." Patriotism is both indispensable and extremely dangerous, involving always the hazards of the self being ceded to the larger purposes of the fatherland. Hitler had a sinister little instinct for patriotic sentiment. Patriotism, or a debased form of it, raucous with jingo and the bully's knuckles, has led the U.S. astray from time to time; citizens hounded German Americans during World War I, for example. They did idiotic and ominous things-fulminating that Einstein's theory of relativity had Bolshevist origins...