Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There have been some incidents on campus, including some derogatory posters about gays. I don't know if it is related to AIDS but [anti-gay sentiment] is not typical for this campus," says Carol A. Southard, head nurse at the University of Chicago student health service. Turco says that while anti-gay sentiment is not particularly visible at Dartmouth, "it's always in the background." Vaughn says, "Many students with AIDS [at Berkeley] go elsewhere for treatment for fear of being ostracized...
...want to be conquerors," says Shmuel Goren, Israel's Defense Ministry coordinator for the occupied territories. Most of his fellow citizens no doubt share that sentiment. But Israel remains a conqueror, a country of 3.5 million Jews and 740,000 non-Jews that gained a quarter of its current territory by war in 1967 and ever since has ruled 1.4 million Palestinian Arabs by force. In just six days of fighting, Israel occupied 2,270 sq. mi. of land on the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as the Golan Heights and the finger of Mediterranean seacoast known...
...requirements were due before the holiday, there would be more incompletes, and the grades and the quality of the work definitely suffers," he says. There never has been very strong sentiment at Princeton for reshuffling the tried and true schedule...
...chain: "It takes 50 pounds of silversides to produce a five-pound blue. It takes 500 pounds of plankton to produce those silversides. It takes 5,000 pounds of microscopic sea plants to produce those plankton animals . . . 'All flesh is grass.' " Yet there is not an ounce of false sentiment in his speeches: "It probably doesn't make sense to talk about pain in a fish . . . an angler who had caught a perch told of finding himself unable to remove the hook without taking one of the fish's eyes out of its socket with it; he threw the fish...
...sentiment is generously larded throughout the collection, although, in fairness, Yevtushenko's verse is more effective in recital. At his best, he is a performance artist whose readings enchant audiences who may not understand what he is saying. He seduces them not with the message but with the medium, the Russian language, with its soft buzzings and throaty sighs...