Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skill, that I had learned to excel in an area in which I had been close to failure. Exulting this experience, I chose to study literature. Of course, my instructor could have given me A's all along, thus depriving me of this feeling of genuine accomplishment, a sentiment many Harvard undergraduates will never know...
Stranger was an evocation of the outlaw tradition, a challenge to the sappy sentiment and popular mechanics of conventional country music. Across the Borderline breaks similar ground, only the raw material it uses is not myth. Nelson's version of the title track is a characteristic redrafting: a song about illegal refugees widens into a memorable evocation of rootlessness, helplessness and drift. Written by Ry Cooder, John Hiatt and James Dickinson for a film sound track, Across the Borderline has become a contemporary classic, sung by, among others, Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. But no one has caught so well...
...speech is vintage Rudnick -- a party wine with a bouquet of sentiment and the kick of rude truth. To the tart social wit of gay writers from Oscar Wilde to Joe Orton he adds irrepressible high spirits -- a tonic when so much of literature has the terminal glums. This Renaissance jester is a yea-sayer, a missionary for joy. "Usually when I'm asked why I write," says Rudnick, 35, "I reply, 'To avoid a day job.' But the truth is that there are people in real life I want to honor. It's easy to write about despair...
...posters] were necessary to respond to the vociferous opposition by various homosexual groups," said Ken D. DeGiorgio '93, a former president of the Conservative Club. "I think the general sentiment of the Conservative Club is that no matter who the University invited, someone would be offended...
Once a sturdy ally of Boris Yeltsin's, Ruslan Khasbulatov has turned into one of his most implacable foes. Last week the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet talked candidly with TIME about the failures of reform, the growing anti- American sentiment in his country and why Yeltsin should quit...