Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...international upheavals. Most, while thrilled at America's free speech and its economic prospects, were shocked by the materialism, secularism and free morality that they encountered. Settling into lives as doctors, engineers or grocery-store owners, they contended with malls, disco and recurrent spasms of anti-Arab and -Muslim sentiment fueled by events such as the Arab oil boycott and the first World Trade Center bombing. Many also had vivid memories of American involvement in their home nations. A sizable faction was attracted to the Islamist movement, which argued for isolation from the American social and political system in favor...
...that requires his own best intentions and calls upon the wise counsel of the rest of the University. As my own time as an undergraduate winds down, I’d like to share with him the one fundamental insight that I have distilled from my Harvard experience, a sentiment I happen to share with many others who have passed through here. I feel strongly that if any one truth, one iota of Veritas, should guide Harvard under his administration, it should be Woodrow Wilson’s observation that “it is not learning but the spirit...
Saif expressed that the sentiment is that because youre an Arab, you have an intimate connection. He shakes his head. I find that very surprising. All [the Muslims and Arab-Americans] Ive known have been very peaceful people...
Tawfiq explained the situation as sparking two types of pariotism. On one hand is the I want to fight to make sure that this never happens again in the world sentiment and on the other side is nationalism as a kind of superiority over the other...
...There are some very profound messages on it,” Ito said. “I’m glad to see that messages which are disturbing have more responses to them, to show that it’s not the sentiment of the entire community...