Word: sentiments
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...standards, he kept the audience captivated and focused. Mansfield, on the other hand, trotted out the same tired and pathetic arguments against affirmative action that he probably gives in his daily lectures. Nothing new here. Jackson's comment to Mansfield probably summed up most of the audience's sentiment: "After hearing you, I'm not surprised white men are worried about competition." At the conclusion of the program, Jackson commented brusquely that by having Mansfield share the podium, "the Dean [Carnesale] is obviously still trying to give help to white men." Jackson was indignant, and rightly...
Today, juries are meticulously purged of jurors with any outside knowledge of the case, and--popular sentiment to the contrary--jurors are supposed to follow the law not their moral senses...
...back in 1946. There was more to come: for Vietnamese, the "re-education" camps, the flight of the boat people, the gradual softening of a harsh communist regime. For Americans, the new sensation of total, undisguisable defeat. But amid all the joy, bitterness, fear and misery, the overwhelming sentiment of Americans, and even of some Vietnamese, was probably the one voiced by Kenneth Moorefield. The war had dominated his entire adult life: he had studied its strategy as a West Point cadet, fought in it as an infantry officer from 1967 to 1970, returned to Vietnam as a foreign-service...
...this more depressing than it should be? Instead of just chalking it up as a another bad movie, and noting another two hours wasted, this reviewer couldn't get "Rob Roy"'s particular failure out of her head. Was it just that some of the time-worn sentiment managed to get around the chinks of conscious rejection and stick there uncomfortably? Maybe, Or maybe it was an uneasy empathy with the director, who tries so hard to be barely ordinary. The murky aims of the late twentieth century overshadow any clean drama of the eighteenth century in Caton-Jones...
Federal funding of education, besides being unconstitutional, has three negative effects. First of all, it encourages a damaging sentiment of entitlement among those who receive it. Students come to feel that they have a right to a college education, even if others have to pay for it. This is a completely wrongheaded attitude. Education may be good and wonderful, but it can by no stretch of the imagination be called a right...