Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...which he heaped slag upon the Children's Defense Fund's founder, Marian Wright Edelman, for being one of those "liberals" who wrongly opposed the welfare-reform bill. He retracted the slag - Edelman, a study in demure imperiousness, was seated in the front row - but not the sentiment. He said he embraced welfare reform in Vermont and implied that he did it better than Clinton. But then, to hear Dean speak, he did just about everything better in Vermont - a rhetorical tic that is beginning to get on the nerves of his fellow candidates...
...anti-war sentiment still filters through the artistic community, both on campus and nationally...
While PART’s work is not modelled on any other movement past or present, it does recall the “guerilla theater” that developed in protest of the Vietnam War—which also tried to harness the power of art in changing public sentiment...
...that upper echelon of a handful of kids that are some of the best I’ve coached,” Allard says. “What is unique about Tiffany is that though she is one of the best hitters I’ve coached, the reigning sentiment about her though is that she is the most multi-faceted athlete I’ve ever coached. I’ve never had a person that could step on the mound and pitch, be quick enough to play the outfield, have enough leadership to anchor first base...
Divestment reflects a sentiment that a particular company—or, in this case, an entire industry—is categorically immoral. Just over a year ago, this criterion was fulfilled when Harvard rightly divested from tobacco companies, which market a product that is uniquely addictive, harmful and irredeemable by today’s health standards. But the requirement is not met by the 11 top American defense companies in which Harvard invests. The weapons they produce, though designed to destroy, still have an important deterrent value. Just as it did during the Cold War, America today arms itself...