Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love Tuskegee. It's our home. That's why we asked to be taken back. For years we've tried to help build a better Tuskegee, one in which we share in the privileges as well as the responsibilities. But Negroes don't feel they can retain their self-respect by surrendering. We do not live by bread alone...
...Composer Stravinsky then proceeded to show a young protege, Conductor Robert Craft, as well as several million Sunday afternoon viewers on NBC, how musical ideas occur. "You have to touch the music," said Stravinsky, innocent eyes bugging and jowls aquiver, "not only to hear it-because touching it, we feel the vibration of the music...
...obsession out of my system. I always try to depict nature as I see it." ¶ Dynasty (opposite), by Kenzo Okada, one of Japan's leading moderns, who now lives in Manhattan. Okada, who came to the U.S. in 1950 with a full-fledged Tokyo reputation, feels his work has become liberated in the U.S., now sells out his shows at $3,500 tops. Dynasty harkens back to Okada's past, recalling to him "the oldtime Japan," though the shapes are his own invention. Says he: "I find myself in nature and nature in myself. There...
...instill confidence, enthusiasm and self-control" into Tufford's salesmen-all by hypnosis, usually applied at two sessions five days apart. First Mikesell puts his subjects in a trance, then talks to them about "positive thinking," building up confidence in their selling ability. Afterwards, says he, they feel like new men. The first charge lasts anywhere from one to two weeks; in a month the client is ready for a recharge. Says Mikesell: "This is no zombie deal. I simply apply hypnosis-and I apply a form of enthusiasm. The enthusiasm is false, of course...
Colonel & Teddy Boy. The reader may feel surprised that Kennie, the moron Teddy boy, should pal around with characters spouting Blake and Dostoevsky, until Wilson's subtle point is clear. His fantasies of violence and his vision of life march-suede shoe by scuffed boot-the same dark path. Cleverly, Author Wilson both evokes and deplores the spirit that may find words among intellectuals and find action in the Teddy boy. To make his point, Wilson introduces a figure of the old order, one Colonel Lambourn, who carries about maps of mysterious defense zones and obscure treasure troves...