Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist, I feel completely outraged at the American art display at Brussels World's Fair [June 16]. Why put that ridiculous sculpture in a beautiful, expensive setting...
...priest, I roared when reading how the Catholic students of Athens' University of Georgia answered Student Lowell Kirby's ridiculous accusation of a Papist plot to establish fascism in America [June 16]. With all the crafty preparations being made by Rome to take over the country, I feel left out in the cold. In my nine years as a parish priest not once have I been called in by my bishop to be briefed on the coming coup d'état. I haven't even been told the date of the uprising...
...earn back the investment) in a bigtime nitery operation now, a boniface has to do boffo biz seven nights a week, and even then he may wind up flivving. Reason: the top-liners are slugging the spots for too much coin. The latest of the show bizites to feel the pinch are Manhattan's Lou Walters, whose "six-stage, super-Broadway showcase," Café de Paris, is deep in the red after only a month's operation, and Brooklyn's Ben Maksik, who last week shut down his cavernous Town & Country Club (TIME, April...
Maritain's love affair with the U.S. is not an uncritical passion. He concludes that Americans are most anxious to be loved abroad, that they feel their lack of "roots" too desperately ("The worst scoundrel in Europe has roots"), that if success does not come at once, discouragement sets in. He believes that, influenced by a "popularized, anonymous positivistic philosophy," too many Americans are afraid to hold strong opinions. Maritain makes a profound observation about tolerance: "The man who says 'What is truth?', as Pilate did, is not a tolerant man, but a betrayer of the human...
...show that the All-American smile can become oppressive, he recalls a dentist whose nurses made him feel that "dying in the midst of these happy smiles and the angel wings of these white, immaculate uniforms would be a pure pleasure, a moment of no consequence . . . I left this dentist, in order to protect within my mind the Christian idea of death...