Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paragraph about me, stating that I had publicly announced that my book, The Outsider, was a fraud. What I actually said was that The Outsider is a fraud as a work of philosophy. When someone has written a book which expresses an intensely personal viewpoint, he is bound to feel a fraud when people hail it as "representing the younger generation, etc." Nevertheless, The Outsider was written with deadly serious intent...
...responsibility of leading their respective nations. All that has happened since the early days of Communism has not taught them a thing. All at once, Mr. Nehru and other similar "neutralists" give a second thought to their policy of how - close -to -fire -can -we -stand -withoutbeing-burned. I feel sorry-and frightened -for the free nations, should our future rest with such naive politicians...
...Critchley, indifference to pain is congenital. No hereditary pattern has been detected; it occurs in different races, equally often in men and women. The painproof individuals sometimes have a poor sense of smell or taste, but their skins are anatomically normal, with the usual number of nerve endings. They feel the pinpricks or burns and can tell where they are located, but they do not react-perhaps because of an abnormality in the higher centers of the brain. In some, the indifference to pain seems to have worn off somewhat in later life. Strangely, there is still no consistent evidence...
Granted, Gaitskell has been able to "surmount" the initial political weaknesses of his personality and background, but many English observers feel that he continues to react to political situations as the academician that he is. "He seems to act with the sense of knowing best," one commentator remarked, "--a kind of vocation to set an incompetant world to rights." This drive to set the world at rights is perhaps implicit in his Socialist creed, but Gaitskell's interpretation of party cant bears the imprint of a man looking for an up-to-date, intellectually solid synthesis. his own words, defining...
...letter to the Senator urging him to accept the position, the HYDC wrote, "We feel that your influence would enhance the prestige of this important new committee and help coordinate it with Congress...