Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trotted onto the field at Boston's Fenway Park for the first of a three-game series with the Red Sox, DiMaggio was far from mid-season physical condition, but a load had been taken off his mind and he seemed to feel nine feet tall. In his first time at bat, he lashed out a sharp single. The next time, he slammed a home run, drove in the runs that won the game. Red Sox fans came to their feet and gave him one of the loudest and longest ovations ever heard in Fenway Park. Joe was back...
...illegitimate son of an English doctor and a French ballet dancer, Meryon joined the French navy in 1841, resigned after seven years "because I did not feel solid enough, either physically or morally, to wield authority over men . . ." As a lonely alternative he took up painting, switched to etching when he found he was color blind. His technical perfectionism was the despair of Meryon himself ("I should have been a tinker"). Combined with his gloomy appreciation of Paris' medieval buildings, it gave his prints the quality of polished mirrors reflecting a magnificently sinister world. "I see an enemy behind...
...thoughtful happiness also carried with it some pain. "It became steadily clearer to me," he has written, "that I had not the inward right to take as a matter of course my happy youth, my good health, and my power of work. Out of the depths of my feeling of happiness there grew up gradually within me an understanding . . . that . . . whosoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others...
...tired old Dr. Schweitzer seemed to be having a wonderful time finding out about the U.S. It was much more congenial than he had expected. Said he last week in New York: "I feel very much at home. I am delighted to find that people here are almost as disorganized and leisurely as they are in Europe...
...what are called spiritual gifts. That is to say, I am incapable of religious experience, in any true sense ... I dislike any man who is pious, and all such men that I know dislike me." The Chrestomathy is liberally sprinkled with his truculent gibes at all faiths, but none feel his unsparing rod more often than the Methodists and Baptists ("As for the Methodists, the Baptists and other such mudsills of the Lord . . ."). As for his own soul: "I go on believing dismally that when the bells ring and the cannon are fired, and people go rushing about frantic with...