Word: sentimentals
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...less traditional: a successful comedian--Bernie Mac--takes in his nieces and nephew after his sister develops a drug problem. But his toughlove philosophy of parenting is strictly old school. "Bernie Mac does not feel it is important to be your kids' friend," says creator Larry Wilmore--a sentiment that transcends color. Mac is both thoroughly black and raceless. Its aesthetic perfectly fits its black baby boomer protagonist (the smartly chosen sound track bursts with such soul hits as the Ohio Players' Love Rollercoaster). But like My Wife, Mac rarely mentions race--a sharp contrast to the netlet shows, which...
...artwork in “Living with Too Little,” the artists inevitably run the risk of trivializing deep-seated issues and romanticizing the gritty reality of poverty and homelessness, turning the experience of human suffering into a sort of tourist attraction complete with bleeding-heart sentiment. This problem is inherent in Maria Termini’s “And Please a Dream,” inspired by Termini’s encounters with homeless people in our own Harvard Square. A series of computer-generated drawings accompany lyrics to Termini’s song...
Earlier this week, military officials reported that the Pentagon is drawing up plans to plant news stories abroad in an effort to increase pro-American sentiment in both friendly and unfriendly countries. Distributing information about America and its foreign policy has usually fallen to the State Department, while the Department of Defense has usually concerned itself solely with tactical and military matters. While this shift in responsibilities would be undesirable on its own, it is even more startling that the Pentagon plans to disseminate false stories along with those that are true...
This desire for cultivation of better world citizens, a sentiment Summers has also expressed, relates in a practical sense to initiatives to improve study abroad options and to intiatives to reform the Core. Most feel that students’ ability to study abroad is destined to improve. Undergraduate Council President Sujean S. Lee ’03 remarks, “The University has recognized the importance of the cultural immersion that you gain from study abroad...
...Gomes says. “It will come because [students] insist upon it.” Gomes jokes that one of his colleagues used to say that “it would be wonderful if students just send in their money and stay at home.” The sentiment behind the humor, he says, is that “students are not an immediately rewarding commodity” and professors prioritize publishing above guiding undergraduates...