Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goddammit," says Odets, "we're living in an age of learn-it-quick. Everyone wants to learn all the tricks of everything he does, all the angles. Every professional writer feels the pressure this vicious, evil society imposes. But in watercolor painting I don't feel that. I can relax. I am an amateur, and I can damn well produce something on which $100,000 doesn't hinge. I paint for two reasons: to cultivate my innocence and to cultivate my ignorance...
Readers of '47's first issue would probably feel that what some of the nation's top writers "have always yearned" to tell them wasn't much. Articles by Jay Franklin, Raymond Swing and Roy Chapman Andrews had the old familiar ring. The photographic art spreads in color (Will Connell, David Eisendrath) and the gag cartoons (Alan Dunn, Gardner Rea) weren't up to the average of the people who made them...
...course colleges could avoid the tax by booting out enough of those students not so fortunate as to be residents of Massachusetts and putting further admissions on a strict quota basis. The bill was designed to encourage precisely this action. Its framers feel that local boys and girls are being denied their fair share of the state's admittedly outstanding educational opportunities. Failing to attain its primary intent, the bill would secure to the state a few millions of additional revenue as consolation for its flouted sovereignty...
...only dangerous but is futile. Those who breed such hate are the reactionary forces of this, the most powerful country in the world. The only fruition of such a hate would be the overthrow of Communism in Russia. This could only be accomplished by an internal revolution, which I feel is impossible, or by an external, atomic war, which I fear is not only possible, but probable unless the inspirers of hate-Russia, hate-Communism have a change of heart...
...Communist, but I feel that this broad philosophy of human, domestic, and state rights is in no way exclusive of the Communist definition of freedom as economic freedom, the right to work, the right to be free of the harrowing battle of merely staying alive. In fact, the keynote of the declaration, as reported in the NY Herald Tribune, is this new emphasis on the "freedom of security...