Word: sentimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...border states such as Delaware and West Virginia were almost unanimously in favor of integration. In Kentucky 89% were in favor, in Texas 87%, in the District of Columbia 86% and North Carolina 84%. In Arkansas and Mississippi only 54% were in favor of integration, and the least integrationist sentiment of all was in South Carolina, with only 50% in favor...
...Harvard Band has been advised against planning any appearances in Little Rock, Ark., apparently because of anti-Northern sentiment there...
...Eugene Black of the U.S. came a final reminder to the have-nots of the world that they could expect little sympathy-or help-if they failed to perform the unpleasant and unpopular duty of putting their own financial houses in order, or if they tried an "appeal to sentiment or exploitation of a strategic position in the international political lineup." But Black urged action by the haves on the "imaginative and constructive" U.S. proposal for Ida. "There is a real need," said Black-and the delegates had to look no farther than the side streets of Delhi...
...result, Mr. Nixon is widely regarded in Latin America as an anti-democratic figure, and this is very damaging at a time when tides of popular democratic sentiment are running strong," he concluded...
Sixty years ago, when most scholars looked on American literature as a collection of crude provincial sentiment, Harvard had one undergraduate course in the subject. Now, after the genius of Poe and Melville, Whitman and Twain and James has finally been recognized, and after Dreiser and Faulkner and Pound have become world-renowned, Harvard...