Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Arthur Schoep, a seasoned campaigner at the New England Opera Theatre took the job, The Harvard Opera Guild began to feel respectable for the first time...
Stevenson will bring intelligence, energy, and some definite programs to the White House. At no time has the United States needed this kind of leadership more. Eisenhower has been "good" but he has not been energetic. Like a good nurse, he has made everyone feel better. But there are deep ills in America and the world which require more than soothing. Only Stevenson seems able to provide the necessary prescription...
...fellow Liberals that the path to his own tomb is studded with inflationary obstacles these days. After retiring from his last government job, Beveridge had felt secure about having enough gold for his golden years: "I was able to take with me for superannuation enough pounds to feel fairly happy for my future. Now each of those pounds is worth six shillings, eight pence. Our plans for useful old age are all going haywire . . . Like many others in their seventies ... I am in danger of living longer than I can afford to live...
...Some see only the mischievous little drunkard who "taught one little girl to say the Lord's Prayer backwards," tweaked William Wordsworth's nose and addressed him as, "You rascally old Lake poet!" Some see him as an overelaborate, rather cute stylist; others brush aside what they feel are merely trappings and hail Lamb as one of the kindest, most generous men that ever lived. Editor Matthews manages to include all these Lambs in his selection and to write what is probably the truest, briefest epitaph: "His friends loved him: his friends still...
...article in The New York Times Magazine, Slichter said that the most "realistic" view of the American economy is held by the "optimistic skeptics," who feel that the gradual rise in price levels is "largely determined by influences over which men have only very incomplete control...