Word: sentimentalization
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...Chicago. "We need some way to cope. Jon Stewart doesn't take anything too seriously. It's easier to take someone joking about a situation." When Chowdah, one of four established comedy groups at Columbia University in New York City, decided to make fun of America's anti-French sentiment at the beginning of the Iraq War, it presented a sketch about a son coming out to his parents that he wants to be French. "It was one of our best-received sketches," says Chowdah's Dave Verbitsky...
...tide may be ebbing. Xie says "liquidity has slowed sharply" in the world's major economies, and investors who are still bullish had better be careful. "The last time [sentiment] was like this was in 2000," says Xie, shortly before the tech bubble was pricked in part by interest-rate hikes. Likewise, Xie expects rising rates to put an end to today's stock boom. Others aren't so bearish, but concede that higher rates may at least temper equities' recent giddy gains. Citigroup last month lowered its expectations for global stock returns for the next 12 months...
...moment has come yet. There are the calculations that economists do, and then there are "animal spirits"?the greed and euphoria that feeds into and prolongs stock booms long after the rationalists conclude they should end. India, some analysts believe, is now a classic case of a market where sentiment may be trumping economics, given that the market there has already tripled in the past three years. "All India's ducks are in a row right now," says Amit Tandon, managing director of Fitch Ratings India in Bombay. "There is a perceptible change in outlook and self-belief." That sense...
...done with vigor and eloquence. "There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school," wrote the partly home-educated George Bernard Shaw. "It is a prison (where teachers) discourse without charm on subjects they don't understand and don't care about." Shaw's sentiment lives on in Sydney mother Mujahidah Flint, who withdrew two of her daughters from their Muslim school before the older one had finished Year 2. Flint felt the school wasn't honoring Islamic values, among other failings. Later, her view of school soured as she read the works...
Johannessen echoes the sentiment. “Leverett was very special,” she says. “We were a small unit, 26 employees. It was a close-knit group. We ate meals together...