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...some level," says Bill McKibben '82, "you could fairly accuse me of being a sentimentalist, I suppose...
...ultimately, McKibben is a sentimentalist, not a scientist, for which The End of Nature suffers. The book's last chapter dissolves into a series of ruminations about what McKibben terms an "anthropocentric" society that values human life above all other forms. In order to forestall the end of nature, he says, humanity needs to begin thinking about the earth as a whole...
...every weekend she and her husband head downtown to Chicago's new club, Karl's Satin Doll, for an elegant evening. "We were falling into the couch-potato thing," she says, "but this has helped us get up and out." So even a sofa spud can be a sentimentalist at heart...
Would the Big Boys enjoy one another? A sentimentalist likes to think so. They, more than anyone, should be able to appreciate one another in a professional way. But the wise mother knows that only children do not necessarily get along with other only children. Sociopaths have trouble socializing. Could they play together? Would they interact? What statues would adorn the hotel lobby? Who would laugh at whose jokes? Who would be primus inter pares among these sullen husks...
...between for the star-crossed lovers, embellishing their tender messages with fanciful tidbits from his own overripe romantic imagination. The lovers' tragic separation gradually softens Phillippe's cynical and egocentric approach to life so that by the film's conclusion, the delinquent is reduced to a blubbering sentimentalist, sobbing over the pain of unrequired love and the joy of its ultimate resolution...