Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advertising, while calculated to inspire confidence, really don't. At his victory party White told the throng "I have said that the problems which face the city are multiple and complex. The important thing to remember is that we can solve them." There's nothing wrong with that sentiment, of course, but White's reliance on the usual cliches of the politician (a reliance that became more pronounced as the campaign drew to a close) suggested that he lacked the vigorous imagination or heightened perception which distinguishes the man of affairs from the politician...
...seems to me that a common devotion to liberal ideals among activist students and the rest of the university may account for some curiously contradictory results during the course of the Dow episode. Such feelings were, I think, one source of the wave of punitive sentiment that at first swept over what I sensed to be an overwhelming majority of the faculty. Apparently many in the majority saw in the demonstrators, not a loose band of frightened youngsters momentarily holding hands to stop what I still think is part of the real threat to intellectual freedom, but a potentially totalitarian...
...have public demonstrations been very effective. The march on the Pentagon only a few days before Dow came to Harvard may have been perversely satisfying to students who wanted the Federal troops and police to over-react. Unfortunately it did little to increase antiwar sentiment among voters. The Washington veterans' bitterness at the treatment they got that bloody weekend, compounded by their unrelieved frustration, undoubtedly affected what went on in Mallinckrodt's hallway...
...consolidation of sentiment in answer to the last question which surprised me most, and which I shall be sure to bring to the attention of whatever joint committee is set up to examine these problems," Stewart said in a statement issued along with the poll results...
...understanding that at the end of yesterday's meeting, in reply to strongly expressed Faculty sentiment, there was a definite commitment to insure that such discussion, in which the student body is to be fully represented ,shall take place. Rogers Albritton, Professor of Philosophy Stanley Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Erik H. Erikson, Professor of Human Development and Lecturer on Psychiatry John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Stanley Hoffmann, Professor of Government Alex Inkeles, Professor of Sociology and Senior Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center Wassily W. Leontief...