Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haifa, Israeli security police hovered anxiously about the new mediator. From Stockholm, Countess Bernadotte spoke to her husband's aide by shortwave radio. Said she: "Give my best to Ralph Bunche. I know what he meant to my husband." Said Mrs. Bunche in Manhattan: "I feel very sad about this appointment ... I can't help but have fears for him as long as he's in that troublesome zone...
...fought his last fight. Now his agent, Sol Strauss, of the 20th Century Sporting Club, announced that Joe would defend his title for the 26th time next June -if the winner of the Joe Baksi-Ezzard Charles bout "comes through good." Said Joe's mother: "I feel awful...
They also set a grim front-page editorial that threatened the International Typographical Union with "full utilization of new typesetting processes. [We] feel that the monopolistic and illegal strangle hold of the I.T.U. on the nation's free press can be successfully broken...
...need to understand music," Villa-Lobos says. "You feel it." The music he feels is all the music of his own country. He grows angry when an unwary guest tells him that he sometimes sounds like a Brazilian Gershwin ("A child compared to me"), would be better pleased to be put on a par with Stravinsky ("Formidable!"). Actually, at his best, Villa-Lobos is like no one but himself. Says he: "I only ask that the maker of a piece of music be original. I do not care to walk in company with routine...
Here & there, the movie has flashes of dramatic vitality and even of authenticity. Samples: the whole look and feel of Cambridge and Harvard, a generation ago; Horace charming a prospective father-in-law and a gaggle of stockbrokers; Mr. Greenstreet breathily declaring his passion for his low-necked, uninterested wife. But the long-suffering friend, inadvertently no doubt, finally becomes absurd and faintly contemptible. It all adds up to a strained, silly show...