Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armed forces have become, indeed, great shields to guard the peace." One helpful quality, concluded Ike, is "a healthy and lively sense of humor ... I hope your own sense of humor is sufficiently active to assure your tolerance of the thoughts I have placed before you, even if you feel no compelling reason for pondering them...
...there has grown between two great blocs of nations the division between what we roughly call the free world and the Communist world. There are some who feel that this struggle is necessarily fated to end either in war or by the triumph of revolutionary Communism. I believe that to be too pessimistic a judgment. Of course the free world must be firm as well as fair. We must not lower our guard. We must not fall victim to propaganda or to mere exhaustion. Nor must we delude ourselves by wishful thinking. We must not conceive of peace...
...wrote a scathing column blaming planned obsolescence-and got 500 supporting letters from readers. A product of the '30s, she readily admits that she leans toward pump-priming Keynesian economics and the Democratic Party. "I don't see how anyone could have lived through the Depression and feel differently...
...like the pain of schizophrenia. "We know that in this life the schizophrenic personality suffers greatly. Such a man believes that he is himself and someone else, [and] riven by this conflict he suffers as though devoured by himself. Now it is possible that the soul in Hell could feel this inner division with regard to itself and to the God for whom it thirsts with all its being . . . But the soul in Hell has throughout its life insisted upon making itself the center of the universe. Now that it is in Hell it sees with unmistakable clarity that...
...barred, such a structure has been built up, at least in the minds of the citizenry. To succeed in running an effective school system, then, the school board must unite the community behind it, and in so doing it will absorb and affect the ideas of the citizens who feel that they have a significant role to play in the education of their own children. This is being done--though far too infrequently--by the means of these reports, and by the appointing of citizens' committees, groups of adults in the community who possess a special interest or knowledge...