Word: sentiments
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...turned into an Oscar-nominated movie. The obvious reference point is To Kill a Mockingbird, whose girl narrator, Scout Finch, is 6 to Lily's 14, and whose fictional setting is Maycomb, Ala., instead of Bees' Tiburon, S.C. But that was back when most big films tended to serious sentiment. Today, the dominant tone is irreverence, sarcasm, facetiousness. Can a time-capsule movie like this one have any resonance today? Can it find an audience to nurture in the old, noble, now-discredited Hollywood traditions...
...television and in magazines. He was also its most polarizing figure. During a long and checkered career, Haider stood out from the crowd of postwar Austrian politicians with his good looks, athletic lifestyle and devilish talent for provocation: he played on and amplified anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. sentiment, courted pariahs like Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein and at one point praised Adolf Hitler's "orderly" employment policies...
...when Herbert Hoover asked his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, for advice on how to cope with the financial implosion of 1929, Mellon replied, "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system." Echoes of that old-time sentiment can still be heard today, but they are mere vestiges of the stifling tyranny of laissez-faire thinking that paralyzed so many governments in an earlier...
Harvard’s lesser-known a cappella groups exemplify this sentiment best. In 2006, several members of the Callbacks formed KeyChange—a group specializing in music from the black diaspora—alongside current president Dara M. Wilson...
...Cherry's sentiment reflects the broader anxiety and frustration about Obama's candidacy that persists in many segments of black America. While the campaign has successfully increased voter registration levels among blacks, getting them to the polls is a very different matter. Cherry and others in the black community worry that the Obama campaign is too concerned with striking a moderate pose that puts white voters at ease and, as a result, is not working hard enough to get out the black vote...