Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been going on in Lehman Hall for the past five months. After students voiced opposition to a clause in a rough draft of the constitution to provide special seats in the assembly for representatives from campus minority organizations, the minority organizations mobilized to neutralize this anti-affirmative action sentiment. The convention members first reacted to this flurry of activity with a sort of pleasant amazement that the convention had finally provoked a response from the students, even a somewhat negative response. Having nearly 90 students show up for a convention meeting--most of which in the past had barely managed...
...very much opposed to the idea of paying the managers," Reardon said, and most managers readily echo that sentiment. "I'm against it in the same way I'd be against paying somebody who plays in the band or writes for The Crimson," Reardon said in placing the manager squarely within the extra-curricular, character-building arena...
...that he had just placed a bet of $10,000 with Ladbrokes, the British bookmakers, on a victory for the present government. The odds: 4 to 5. The left's chances were rated at dead even. The baron explained that he was not counting on any change in voter sentiment. The left would lose, he said, because after the first round of voting, the Communists would refuse to give their support to front-running Socialists in the second round. He was not alone in that opinion. The depressed Paris stock market rose 5.9% over the past two weeks...
...There is much sentiment that such groups would be unnecessary and inappropriate," Skocpol said...
Still, the ACSR's performance this year surpasses its behavior last year, when the combination of even more secrecy in its operations plus bureaucratic ineptitude made a joke of the idea of the ACSR serving to monitor, distill, and relay to the Corporation University sentiment on investment decisions. The ACSR has analyzed the issue of Harvard's involvement in companies with links to South Africa much more thoroughly this year, and has held an open hearing to allow interested observers to present their viewpoints to the committee...