Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...toward AAWA’s work was less than supportive. “One of the arguments we got was, ‘We’ve had the party for the last fourteen years, and nobody had a problem then,’ and I think that sentiment is part of the problem,” Ho says. “The impression is that past silence means it’s okay.” Harvard’s Asian-American community in general, to the dismay of many leaders within it, has historically been slow to anger...
...Akon sings, but then he steps back from his tough realism: “Tryin’ to hold on a couple more years / tryin’ not to get blown away.” What starts out as steely-eyed fatalism turns into helpless desperation, a sentiment that gets echoed later on “Gangsta Bop.” Singing over a laid-back parody of every G-Unit beat, Akon starts out with a broken flow, giving the half line “you die quicker” room to sink in before he quietly says...
...seem to care if it sounds good or not. While the audience doesn’t gain much here, I’m sure playing the voice of humanity strokes Bono’s ego splendidly. Releasing a mediocre song to push an already widely shared sentiment: whose minds the groups are trying to change? —Alina Voronov
...toward AAWA’s work was less than supportive. “One of the arguments we got was, ‘We’ve had the party for the last fourteen years, and nobody had a problem then,’ and I think that sentiment is part of the problem,” Ho says. “The impression is that past silence means it’s okay.” Harvard’s Asian-American community in general, to the dismay of many leaders within it, has historically been slow to anger...
...response to this exclusion is in line with New England’s general sentiment: just pretend it’s not there...