Word: sentimentals
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...does not fall. On the various religious holidays, no one gets excited or attacks other religions. We just get along together. So we don't understand the fury generated by the Muslim immigrants in Europe. Chris Taylor Cape Town Before Muslims become enraged at the rising sentiment against them in Europe, before they expect and demand acceptance of their presence here - complete with head scarves, imams, mosques and even involvement in politics - shouldn't they stop and think about the way non-Muslim foreigners are treated in some of their home countries? Are non-Muslims there offered the same hospitality...
Robert Acosta, a police officer from Florida who worries about protecting his 6-year-old son from dirty TV, expresses that sentiment plaintively: "We have to go back to the '50s. The world is going crazy. The '50s was a great time." Perhaps decency advocates mourn not only the moral standards of the '50s but also the social consensus. Opinion about today's balkanized media is as fragmented as their audience. So who should set the standard? Parents of kids under 18? (They make up only 36% of U.S. households.) Senior citizens? That gay guy with the nipple ring...
According to Ryan, writers of the period aestheticized violence. They conjoined nationalist sentiment with “libidinal interest.” Essentially, they made Nazism sexy, or at least sexually charged...
...wrote University President Lawrence H. Summers and Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe in an op-ed published in The New York Times on March 29, 2003. They expressed this sentiment in reaction to a Supreme Court case which questioned the admissions process at the University of Michigan (UM). Treating race as one factor among many, both Harvard and UM (which won the legal battle) seek to admit a diverse student body. With classes composed of a wide range of ethnicities and backgrounds, each individual Harvard student benefits from the myriad perspectives their peers bring to the table...
...however, has left its rejected applicants indignant over its decision, with most voicing that the school overreacted without fully understanding the situation. Now, what seemed to be a lesson in business world ethics seems to have added to anti-Harvard sentiment...