Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crockett leaped to his feet. "I do not say I will not do it again." Said Medina: "Well then, if you feel like doing it, you go ahead . . . with moderation...
What graduates feel that way, Mr. Pond? Not I, certainly, nor a good many other Harvard graduates, I'll wager. You give me the answer in the next sentence--"the conservative element...
Many of the groups who opposed the pianist's tour feel that as a Nazi sympathizer, Gieseking should not be able to profit from an American concert tour. This feeling is understandable, but again it leads to a damaging error. This position follows logically to the absurd proposition that American cannot buy goods made by any Germans who condoned the Nazi government. If Gieseking cannot profit from the sale of his talent, the many millions of Germans like him should not be able to profit either...
Author Zilahy (rhymes with feel a knee) is the author of nine previous novels and 19 plays which have made him popular at home and in Spain and Italy as well. The Dukays is his version of the decline of the West, from the turn of the last century to World War II; it follows the decaying lives of members of an aristocratic Hungarian family. Like many ostensibly moral stories, The Dukays' chief feature is not so much its somber conclusion in the inferno as its spicy descriptions of how the characters get there...
...Kristina collapses into the arms of Spain's Alfonso XIII, her sister, Countess Zia, takes over for the between-wars decades. When at last, after more than 700 pages, Hitler and the Russians start divvying up what's left of the Dukay world, many a reader may feel an unreasonable sense of relief...