Word: sentimentalized
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...elegy on the death of Yeats, W.H. Auden wrote that "poetry makes nothing happen" and added, "It survives,/ A way of happening, a mouth." This sentiment seems a long step down from Shelley's 19th century claim that poets are "the unacknowledged legislators of the world." But both statements add up to the same thing: the practical life of getting and spending needs, however grudgingly, the exhilaration and consolation of poetry, of memorable speech, of words striving to be true to themselves. The 20th century perfected the hard sells of propaganda and advertising, but talented people still worked to keep...
Sagan recalls how when HLU introduced a resolution stating that the organization should exclude Communists, Bellah was the only student willing to speak out and identify himself as a member of the Party despite fierce anti-communist sentiment...
...anti-Carnesale sentiment has not beenthe only one voiced on campus. Outside theinauguration building on Friday, pro-Carnesale andpro-Prop. 209 students also demonstrated...
...frank homage to The Honeymooners' Art Carney. But Seinfeld's fans have always been rather smug when they declare that the show is "about nothing" and that its prime directive is "No hugging. No learning." The idea seems to be that to find humor in trivia and to avoid sentiment is very happening, now, today...
...Sheats said tutors responsible for drafting the letters declined to propose formal alternatives to randomization because they hope changes made to the current policy will reflect student sentiment...