Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel that students, veterans in particular, as a group that has a limited fixed income, stand to be unfairly injured by the elimination of price controls and subsequent inflation," declared Geller...
...average man doesn't read a novel in order to see how many faults he can find in it, or how superior he can feel to the writer. He reads to be entertained and, incidentally, to widen his vision of the world in which he lives. If a writer takes him into the presence of Roosevelt, Hitler, and Stalin, it would never occur to him to require legal proof that such an experience ever did happen to any one man in the course of one year...
...Queen photographed poorly, and that she was not nearly as plump as she appears in pictures. This is not so. The Queen has a very round figure with the small ankles and slim lower legs of a woman who would rather eat than bother with her weight. I feel safe in saying that her wardrobe is unimaginative. I'll just add that she avoids a very definite double chin by holding her head well...
...palm frond and pandanus, on this most "backward" of islands, the most progressive of centuries would write in one blinding stroke of disintegration the inner meaning of technological civilization: all matter is speed and flame. Well might the stone giants embedded in the solid earth of Easter Island feel, in the far ripple of fission brought them by the waves, a tremor of finality...
...things as they did when they were children, with a certain ulterior fixity of attention. The nervous and jovial object in the living room is Uncle Alfred, yes; but they cannot let it go at that; neither can they stop trying to define other things they see and feel. They are the writers who are born artists, and early in life this is apt to be a troublesome condition. It is a fact that they might write something exciting, one day to be regarded as a bud in the branching of a fine poet or novelist; it is another fact...