Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incorrect implementation of the membership rotation schedule could have a bearing on the Committee's deliberations. For example, consider the fact that one-third to one-half of the Law School faculty actively oppose the University's current South Africa investment policy, while similar sentiment is less widespread at the Business School...
...opened the three-hour session with a quote from the well-known children's book "Where the Wild Things Are," by Maurice Sendak A little patronizing, perhaps, but the sentiment accurately characterized the evening to come...
Still, as McCoy notes, there is "a very deeply ingrained sentiment--almost a conditioned reflex--in society that we do owe something to the victims of discrimination, and to the heirs of the victims as well." Regardless of any decrees handed down by Supreme Court Justices or Cabinet officers, affirmative action has permeated personnel offices and public bureaucracies. It may be difficult to frame precise formulas to cure past discrimination without discriminating anew. Yet many employers have begun to feel their way to a commonsense approach, trying to hire and promote minorities and women wherever possible without discriminating against white...
...bombing of a bar in an Athens suburb two weeks ago, in which more than 30 Americans, many from a nearby military base, were injured, prompted Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger to comment, "This is one of those things you tend to get when all this anti-American sentiment is stirred up." A Greek government spokesman fired back, "It is rather Mr. Weinberger who should be condemned for an anti- Greek campaign." Athens police still do not know whether the bomb was tossed into the crowded bar by terrorists or by thugs...
...murdered by Jack Ruby, then argued the case that Kennedy was slain by a conspiracy. CBS's Kill Me If You Can played down the crimes of Sex Offender Caryl Chessman and dwelt on his slow, gruesome execution in the gas chamber for the explicit purpose of arousing public sentiment against capital punishment. NBC's Kennedy depicted the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a scheming bureaucratic thug, and the same network's King, also by Abby Mann, suggested that the black civil rights leader was virtually a puppet of white liberals. At minimum, docudramas inevitably distort history...