Word: sentimentals
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...case against him. He must be deposed, we are told, not because of what he has done in the last ten years but because of what we are afraid his evil personality will cause him to do in the future. If Saddam had marketed himself better, the American public sentiment about invading Iraq would undoubtedly be different, and that is a troublesome thought as well. I wonder what would have happened if David Chase had an Iraqi cousin. Might the Most-Wanted Despot instead be America’s favorite star...
...editions today and that is taught inmany Orthodox religious schools. IbnKathir, a 13th century Koranic commentator, struck back by claiming the Jews had "dishonestly and slanderously" introduced Isaac into the Torah story: "They forced this understanding because Isaac is their father, while Ishmael is the father ofthe Arabs." That sentiment too survives today on the Muslim side...
...later years he embarked on a series of complex, allegorical triptyches. He had completed the last of these, The Argonauts, in his New York studio the day before he died in 1950. As a German very much of the 20th century, Beckmann had a dark vision, shorn of false sentiment and scornful of aesthetic pleasantries. The Pompidou exhibit, which will move on next year to London's Tate Modern and New York's Museum of Modern Art, does a fine job of aligning Beckmann's shifting stylistic approaches with his overall purpose, as he put it in 1938, to find...
...Harrison said that regardless of the legal success of suits against Harvard or the government, the students also hope to influence public sentiment...
Given recent attacks on Jews in Europe, actions against Israeli academics and profoundly anti-Israel sentiment at last summer’s UN conference on racism, the developments on campus are all the more worrisome, Summers said...