Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From neighborhood meetings with company officials in nearby Arlington and Belmont to the chambers of the Cambridge City Council, a chorus of politicians and citizens alike have echoed one resounding sentiment the risks associated with the testing of toxic nerve agents far outweigh any benefits to the third a densely population populated city in America...
...fact, these highly toxic substances are currently unregulated by any local, state, or federal public safety statutes except by Department of Defense standards. In the absence of reliable regulations, it is no wonder that Cambridge residents are wary about ADL's nerve gas testing. ADL's should need public sentiment which indicates that nerve gas is not something Cambridge wants next door...
Morgan herself is on the radical left of the American feminist movement. She tells us in her introduction that her goal is "not only to change drastically our own powerless status worldwide, but redefine all existing social structures. Her sentiment, echoed over and over is perhaps best expressed by Mola Ogundipe-Leslie, a professor of English at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria: "It would seem that I am arguing that men are the enemy. No, men are not the enemy. The enemy is the total societal system, which is a jumble of neocolonial and feudalistic, even slave-holding, structures...
After a brief prologue--nasty, brutish, and short--we find ourselves in Stockton. Massachusetts in 1692, "at the height of the Puritan witch craze." Protagonist Nicholas Flatford (Jeff Rosen), a Puritan with a taste for sentiment and his own bad poetry, has just been given an ultimatum by Martha Coftin (Debra Staniunas), his something-more-than-shrewish wife: five days to clean up his act and cut out the poetry, or else. A reasonable request. "Can't you talk of something else besides the weather, vegetables, and domestic animals?" Nicholas demands, as he proceeds to undertake this task with twice...
...discovery that no doubt leaves us mate with astonishment. What innovation. But where's Auntie Em? This is a dorm room at the Harvard Business School--surely a case of art imitating life imitating art, if ever there was one Ernest Flatford, B-School student with a taste for sentiment and bad prose, is rudely awoken by colleague and rival (and, inexplicably, object of his desire), the ghastly Prudence Tomb (Martha Coffin). Rabid purveyor of the go rich-quick-after-B-School American Drench, Martha, ever the killjoy, nags at Ernest to do his reading between intermittent snatches...