Word: sentimentals
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...Elsewhere in Asia, anti-U.S. sentiment can even outweigh what seem to be more pressing issues. The U.S. has 37,000 troops stationed in South Korea to guard against an assault by the dangerous dictator to the north, Kim Jong Il. A month ago, Kim admitted he had an atomic bomb program. Last week, he cranked up a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium. And what was the reaction on the streets of Seoul? There was furious protest?but it was directed at the U.S. embassy after the acquittal of two U.S. servicemen for the accidental killing...
...sentiment is shared by dozens of past and present graduate students and undergraduates...
...private selves. By trying to fit lives into neatly divided parts, we risk becoming little more than walking five-minute prepared statements, so polished that our exteriors become impenetrable. Many people write about the phenomenon of “rolodex-building” at Harvard: the oft-expressed sentiment that we are so concerned with our futures that we lose the raw unpredictability of the present. So often required to distill ourselves into personal statements and choreographed answers, whittled down to bare statistics, we lose our better, less articulate selves...
...anti-war sentiment among audience members was evident throughout the evening. Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley H. Hoffman joked with Hitchens when he stepped to the microphone to pose a series of questions...
...June 2, The Guardian ran the headline “Copenhagen Flirts with Fascism.” In addition to a demonstration that the authors have no idea what fascism is except that they don’t like it, the article is a barometer of elite European sentiment about the resurgent conservative wing of European politics. Replace “Copenhagen” with “The Hague” or “Rome” or any other European seats of government that have been taken over by right-wingers and you have the general liberal...