Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate covered both the ends and means of the work, the three issues currently under scrutiny neatly fall into only one or the other of these categories. No one protests the medical breakthroughs resulting from radioactive lab work, or from experimentation on lab animals, but the sentiment is that the methods are excessive. On the other side, the activists view the development of nuclear weapons, no matter how it's done, as evil...
...such sentiment seems especially intense in the Bay State. One reason, of course, is the predominance of scientists who work in Massachusetts. Cambridge alone hosts two of the world's major research centers--Harvard and MIT. Harvard spokesman David Rosen says Massachusetts is a leading center of the movement to demand accountability from scientists because the populace is highly elevated enough to question those in power. Rosen draws a correlation between the concentration of Ph.Ds in an area and anti-research sentiment. "The educated are equipped to ask questions," he adds. While some of the proposed curbs are extreme...
...have fared better in garnering votes in predominantly white areas. "For the first time large segments of ethnic Americans have to live under a black administration and pay deference to black leadership," says Harvard Political Scientist Martin Kilson. "This is something new and significant in a society where racist sentiment is deep, rigid and difficult to change...
Several schools conducted campus-wide referenda to determine student sentiment on the disarmament issue...
...Festival last week, fans and film hustlers were tripping over their Guccis to get a look at the postprison Loren. She was there to get an honorary trophy for representing "the long and great tradition of love that unites the festival at Cannes and the Italian cinema." A nice sentiment and, since the award carries no cash value, no tax problems either...