Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wisconsin, said last week. Fennig's son, Technical Sergeant Patrick P. Fennig, 34, an F-15 crew chief, was killed in the explosion at the Khobar Towers compound. "None of us," Fennig said, "have a problem with the mission." The families of other service members who died echoed that sentiment, and U.S. officials insisted that the act of terror would not deter the U.S. from fulfilling its mission in Saudi Arabia and around the Persian Gulf. In the aftermath of last week's deaths, however, it is appropriate to ask what exactly that mission is and whether...
...inevitably the nation's No. 1 political boss. Yet he is, at the same time, if not in the same breadth, the leader of public opinion. Those who administer our physical life, also administer our spiritual life. He is, in Woodrow Wilson's words, "the spokesman for the real sentiment and purpose of the country." He is thought of by people as a combination of scoutmaster, Delphic oracle, hero of the silver screen and father of the multitudes. The framers of the Constitution took a momentous step when they fused the dignity of a king and the power...
...speech to the annual meeting of the Alumni Association on the afternoon of Commencement Day, Varmus addressed the discontent on campus surrounding his selection as Commencement speaker. He discussed the widespread sentiment within the senior class that his Nobel-winning discovery of cancer-causing oncogenes did not make him "exciting" enough to speak at a Harvard graduation...
...could be a child, it could be some other tragedy--and use that pain to renew their relationship. The songs may be elegiac and romantic, but Roberts and his trio--Wynton's brother Jason Marsalis on drums and David Grossman on bass--never trade emotional complexity for easy sentiment. Accordingly, Time and Circumstance is one of those rare CDs whose liner notes--in which Roberts explains each song's intricate themes--add substantially to the understanding of the music...
...right: When he was senior tutor of Leverett House, he wrote in one of his class reports that "I maintain my humility by remembering that I cannot remember who my own senior tutor was" -- betraying an adamance not to let others write the same thing about him. That sentiment comes from a reverence for an ideal of what this place should be and an inspired personal challenge to achieve...