Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whichever scenario is correct, says Astrophysicist Greenstein, "I find a certain pleasure and honor in belonging to the universe of stars, of these events that have created the materials of which the earth and I are made." It is a sentiment many can echo. The final consolation has always been, as humanity looking upward measured its own finiteness against the infinity of the stars, that it is better to have been for a season, even a moment, than not to have been at all. The stars thus are no less symbols in their newly understood mortality than they were, seemingly...
...Harvard was handled by the Administrative Board, a group of the senior tutors, senior advisors, and the College's major deans. But after the discipline cases resulting from a demonstration at Paine Hall in late 1968 revealed that the Ad Board was badly divided on political issues there was sentiment among Faculty members that the Ad Board should not be in the business of disciplining students involved in political demonstrations...
...boycott, most Faculty members and administrators would much rather see the CRR die as a student issue. The Committee is often viewed as merely a thorn in the administration's side that with time and a local form of "benign neglect" will fade. There is also very little sentiment among Faculty members to change the CRR, and even less to spend time at Faculty meetings discussing...
There are signs that the Faculty will not soon be able to ignore the CRR, however. There is some sentiment among students to try to establish again this year a College-wide policy on the CRR. Student representatives on the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life seem interested in having CHUL discuss it. And the students who last year drafted a series of CRR reform proposals are ready to ask Dean Rosovsky to have the Faculty consider them...
America, America. And with that noble sentiment, my friends, words fail...