Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also, Handlin said, the sentiment of the Department has always been against any limitation on the number of people writing theses. The presumption, he said, has been that anyone who is good enough to get into Harvard is good enough to do a thesis...
Handlin apparently drew his conclusions about undergraduate sentiment from a series of meetings with History concentrators held last May at the suggestion of the Harvard Policy Committee. But the undergraduates were chosen by the Department and not by the HPC, and their mandate, if any, was not clear...
Though the document defended Poland's postwar acquisition of the Oder-Neisse territories as a "basic question of existence," it sought forgiveness for the suffering of German refugees and expellees forced from their homelands in the Polish takeover. Such sentiments had not been heard by Germans from Poles since the war, and the German bishops were delighted to accept the invitation. In their response, they carefully explained that when Germans speak of their Heimatsrecht to the eastern territories, "it does not-with a few exceptions-signify aggressive intentions" but merely a feeling of remaining emotionally "linked to their homeland...
...offering a gift of elephants to "bear burdens and travel through uncleared woods and matted jungles where no carriage and cart roads have yet been made." The beasts might have served well in the Civil War's Battle of the Wilderness, but Lincoln politely declined the offer. The sentiment, however, was not forgotten...
...Korea, and that our next President will promise to bring the boys home. The Chinese tell Hanoi that our soldiers want only to return to their soda fountains and that they will soon fade in the intense jungle heat. Also, the anti-war demonstrations remind them of the French sentiment in 1954 which gave them half the country...