Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catholic, but I feel that one of the most hopeful events in recent history is the release of the 50-point declaration of rights last Saturday by the American hierarchy of the Catholic church...
...Student Council, where students still feel that undergraduate opinions, in spite of widespread unconcern are indispensable guides in administrative decisions of the University (and even there, apathy of others has deceptively bred an illusion of their own superior intelligence...
...closing years of the war Americans slowly began to feel the tragedy of China. Bound to the land by centuries of feudal control, divorced from the future by leaders who were not sure whether the enemy lay across the China Sea or in the communes of north China, a nation of 400 millions was slowly dying in the arms of its desperate allies. By analyzing the forces that are now out of control, the authors of this majority opinion on the Chinese crisis have thrown light on past American mistakes. The gravity of these errors is evidenced by the civil...
...have maintained a correct aloofness toward their Soviet God-fathers. Yet the label of "agrarian liberalism," as applied by the authors, cannot quell fears of democrats who have watched police states entrench themselves in the vacuum left by moderates who are terrified by change. Theodore White and Miss Jacoby feel that American policy has more to offer than an endorsement of a social structure that the great mass of Chinese rejects. By pressuring the Nanking government into the widest possible program of reform, the State Department can set out on the lone path leading out of the Chinese political jungle...
There are other sequences which are dramatically confusing and tiresome: ragged little missions which fray out to death or nothing, and a succession of terse, disconsolate staff meetings. But as experiments in evocation-the way fighters look and feel and act-these scenes have seldom been equaled...