Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have been easier on Artist Peter Kurd [Jan. 13] if L.B.J. shared Robert Burns's sentiment: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us. To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. An' foolish notion...
Historically, the student deferment was instituted to insure the availability of educated technical and management personnel capable of filling skilled positions in industry. Provision for the 2-S in the Selective Service Act of 1955 was not only a concession to sentiment against universal military training (unprecedented in "peacetime" before World War II), but an allowance for the needs of the industrial side of the military-industrial complex. Today, when the need for such trained personnel in industry has diminished relative to the need for them in the military, there is a move to abolish the deferment, to throw...
...residents of the various Radcliffe houses concerning the extension or the further continuance of the present system of the allotting Parietal hours among the various days of the week, which was decidedly on the side of the opponents of extension of the parietal periods until the reversal of ambient sentiment switched the balance of opinion to those advocates of extension of parietals negating the heretofore previous situation which is outlined above, which appears the only noteworthy element in a controversy composed of those elements whose social interest lies not so much in their immediate appeal, or their poignant arousal...
Doubt and confusion, not outright disapproval or opposition, is the most prevalent sentiment. Some students have marched in protest, criticizing U.S. aggression, intervention and all the rest. But the vast majority of young men think of the situation in less cosmic terms. To them, it is the individual predicament that matters--the problems of delaying a career, postponing marriage, leaving home...
Heyns and ASUC representatives, during their Christmas recess meetings, talked mostly about the constitution of this commission. McIntosh was concerned that the proposed commission, to be composed of five faculty members and five students, might be so dominated by the faculty that it would ignore student sentiment. This is precisely what happened to the doomed "Campus Rules Committee," another joint commission set up after FSM which was supposed to establish lines of communication between students and the university...