Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That sentiment is hardly new: in 1944, Dean of the Faculty Paul H. Buck solicited professors’ opinions on the Overseers’ visiting committees. As Morton and Phyllis Keller describe in their book “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University,” Buck’s findings were far from promising: “complete indifference.... The function has sunk to so low a repute that few believe anything can be done with the device...
...prefer to describe as a "churchgoing mother of five, grandmother of five"--becomes the public face of the majority. Allies of Pelosi, who put Emanuel in his campaign job, say that if the Democrats take over, he could become whip, the third-ranking leader. Several Democrats familiar with House sentiment speculate that if the party wins big, members might decide to be bold and pass over her for a Speaker Emanuel, which has a nice ring. (Says Emanuel: "She will be the leader. Not interested...
...betime to retireCaspar David Friedrich's The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog from further use on a book cover. Lovely as it is, this painting has done enough time as shorthand for a sentiment along the lines of "Man is so small, the world about him so vast, gaze on it with me, won't you?" Then again, sometimes exactly that sentiment is called for. Such is the case with Jason Roberts' A Sense of the World (HarperCollins; 382 pages), an enthralling biography of a man you've never heard of named James Holman...
...misspoke," Bush admitted. "I should never have included in my previous sentence those 16 words. But make no mistake: If I had to say it all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of general sentiment...
...their part, aid workers here blame the U.S. and other Western military for enflaming anti-Western sentiment, which invariably ends up being vented at the softest targets: the charities. U.S. and NATO convoys regularly plough through the city at high speed, often pushing Afghans off the road with little regard to their safety. "The U.S. use force in the street with their cars. When Americans are in a hurry, they don't care how they drive," said an Afghan U.N. worker who asked to remain anonymous...