Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holt's crew is employed to watch the children of married students. Hence they are given rock bottom wages. Holt is faced with the delicate problem of keeping two groups of students happy. He feels the married ones would feel the pinch too much if they were forced to pay the unmarried ones any more...
...area, however, the Committee possibly has called for a bit of needless fretting. "We feel," the report says, "that unless Administration is freed from its preoccupation with an incomplete program and comes to reconsider the more basic questions of personnel and of the incentives to actual learning, General Education may never become more than expensive half success...
...feel myself in the desperate position of one who, having just presented a long, painstaking, carefully worked out harangue on a subject dear to his heart, is confronted with the request: 'Will you now give us seventy-five words on what you've just said?' " ¶ Georgia O'Keeffe spent only sev en well-chosen words in describing her latest painting - a starkly splen did, semi-abstract rendering of the Brooklyn Bridge (see cut) : "This is the Brooklyn Bridge...
...according to booksellers, no discernible number of those who buy The Seven Storey Mountain feel themselves called to contemplation. In Boston, where booksellers estimate that 85% of Merton's buyers are Catholics, readers have objected that the faith he writes about is too emotional, and not sufficiently based on cold reason. Commonest objections of Boston Protestants: "A life of contemplation is all very fine, but it doesn't help solve any of the world's problems...
Brown stated that the decision was unexpected. "We feel that the committee did not have all the facts before it when it acted," he said...