Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans have not yet faced up to their grossly inconsistent practices concerning offenders. Vengeance and retribution feed our baser appetites, but the price in lives, property and taxes is immense. "Law-and-order" will come only as we develop policies and programs based on knowledge, rather than on sentiment...
Future History. Though the ties still bind, anti-French sentiment is rising. Students and workers particularly feel that their leaders have sold out to Paris, and they would like to have their countries run without French constraint. For such tiny or unviable countries as Togo, Chad and Dahomey, this is an impossible dream. But for Senegal, the Ivory Coast, Cameroun and Mauritania, such a transition is inevitable. In the view of most African observers, French-speaking Africa faces a second revolution, if only because the first one didn't change anything...
...between Harvard and Yale. The duello is a custom instituted by gentlemen, and presupposes a code of honor. Duels are ever polite, for the consent of a gentleman to measure swords is in itself a compliment to his adversary, and implies a certain parity of position and sympathy of sentiment. We hope, then, that the future contests between Yale and Harvard will not be marred by the expression of any feeling less creditable than honorable emulation. The students of Yale must certainly see, as we do, that the true interests of Harvard and Yale are identical, that our traditions...
Aside from the sentiment manifested in assembling the other classes with the Seniors for the last time, it would be hardly generous to shut out the other classes from the ground, since there is room for but few of them on the seats without excluding fairer guests. It would be well, however, as has been suggested, for the Class Day Committee to ask the lower classes to hold a meeting and agree to give up the rush...
...pity that McCarthy's poems will be denied the autonomy of anonymity. Many have wit, candor, grace, style and the nicest sort of sentiment. As the poet says, "Do not look long on a harbor from which all ships are gone...