Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charges of misappropriating funds. MaryAnn Cunanan now gets food stamps. Before she stopped talking to the media, she told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "No matter what he's done, he's my flesh and blood. I can't believe he could be a cold-blooded killer." She added a sentiment many would surely echo, about their own flesh and blood: "I hope he's not the next...
...that opens next week; Amistad, the true story of a slave revolt, expected at year's end; and Saving Private Ryan, a World War II saga starring Tom Hanks. Ever since Jaws in 1975, Spielberg has led the way for mainstream movies, with their kinetic savvy and kid-centric sentiment. To an extent, they are what he has been. But what is he now? Has Peter Pan grown...
...Many Jews at Harvard gathered last night to commemorate Israel's birthday. But why? America is home to people of a variety of nationalities, yet it seems that very few celebrate the holidays specific to their nation of origin. At first glance, it seems like any sort of nationalist sentiment for any country other than America is wildly out of place here. Yet there is an extremely strong identification with Israel among many American Jews. This phenomenon is even more interesting considering that most of the people who celebrate Israeli Independence Day in this country have no roots that trace...
...Harvard should also make an effort to change this University's atmosphere so it is more welcoming to women professors. Part of that comes from sheer numbers., but a significant part also arises from negative attitudes toward research done by and about women and from a pervasive "old boys" sentiment in which debates over the beer are the norm...
...overwhelming. This has been the most beautiful spring most people can ever remember, and in the dazzling sunshine the British electorate voted Labour into overwhelming power precisely because they knew it would be change without revolution. It was a happy vote, not a bitter one. The overwhelming sentiment was "Time for a change." This decisively outbalanced the "feel-good factor" produced by the fact that the country has the strongest economy in Europe--its best in 50 years--and most people have never earned so much...