Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...exploitation of patriotic sentiment for private gain is hardly new. But the attacks were a national tragedy, one that demands a quiet determination to remember those who died. Commercializing their sacrifices is a sure way of turning the ineffable into the merely ordinary--and making something ordinary is the first step to forgetting...
...Harvard students, this can mean leaving for a mission site after their first year or their 19th birthday. For Jarvis, this was not an entirely pleasant experience. After a month of training in Utah, he left in the summer of 1997 for Spain, a country notorious for anti-Mormon sentiment. Two years of knocking on doors to offer prepared lectures on the Mormon doctrine was “really difficult a lot of the time,” relates Jarvis. “I couldn’t help thinking how irritated I’d be if someone...
Lewis says he believes that this is what has happened at Harvard—a sentiment shared by the roughly three dozen Faculty and administrators interviewed for this article...
...thought that we were insulated from [the recession],’’ said Miller. “The bottom line is, you do have to face this. The general student sentiment here is, ‘isn’t this a mess...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even the marginal assistance it gave in the financial and military areas came only after much heel-dragging by the regime. The Saudis are still loathe to explain their support for the U.S. anti-terror campaign to their own people because of widespread, popular anti-Western sentiment...