Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Banana Pie. To husky, 17-year-old Richard C. Rowe of Denver, as to thousands of other U.S. college freshmen, the holiday held the feel of freedom, the warmth and excitement of homecoming. His mother had waited tip the night he got home from Park College at Parkville, Mo., and fed him banana cream pie. He had slept late, hurried off to meet other malted-milk topers at the Purity Creamery, and angle for holiday dates. On Christmas he would go to church, plough through a huge dinner, drive to a mountain cabin with his family to toast marshmallows over...
...clinical director of the hospital, decided to try psychosurgery. (She consented.) A surgeon carefully opened her skull (using a local anesthetic), sliced into the frontal lobes of the brain, cut most of the nerve connections to the thalamus (crossroads of the brain's nerves). The patient said: "I feel dopey." After the operation she cried, sucked her thumb, splashed in her bath like a two-year-old. But in a month, she acted like an adult...
...this pamphlet, Novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, the leader of the French Existentialist movement, vigorously, often brilliantly, drags a shady topic into the light. He occasionally pushes a sound idea to a silly extreme, e.g.: readers are likely to feel that Author Sartre hits the nail square on the head when he says that the anti-Semite is normally a petty bourgeois who takes "passionate pride" in being "an average man . . . a mediocre person." But they will balk when Sartre goes on to say that "there is no example of an anti-Semite claiming individual superiority over the Jews," or that...
...Sartre (who is not a Jew himself), anti-Semitism is sometimes the mediocre snob's means to a social end. ("Proust showed, for example, how anti-Dreyfusism brought the duke closer to his coachman . . ."). It also makes the French (or U.S.) Jew feel that no matter how hard he tries to be a real Frenchman (or American) he can never really be one-which makes the Gentile feel more like part of the nation's backbone himself...
Personality out of Prejudice. Author Sartre concludes his essay with a few sharp words directed at those who are merely "prejudiced" against Jews. Such "secondhand anti-Semites," he avers, tend to feel that way because they feel very little else: anti-Semitic prejudice "allows them to assume the appearance of passion...