Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's Nehru, who has as much reason to care as anyone, has displayed a great deal of feeling for the Dalai Lama, whom he hopes will continue to be safe. But he does not seem to know how he should feel towards the Tibetans themselves. He praised India's consul general in Tibet for refusing to accompany Tibetan women in a protest march, and declared, "We have no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of China, with whom we have friendly relations." It's not, Nehru feels, lack of concern but "noninterference...
...present, the committee can boast only 15 members, five or six of whom are "consistently energetic," and the dreams of national influence are fading fast. "Students feel that the policies involved are too complicated to be tackled by private citizens," said President David Hamilton '62, "and the initial wave of interest in getting negotiations started has subsided, leaving us to cross our fingers and hope a compromise will be worked...
...satisfaction of his job. That satisfaction he finds in working out new ways of attaining old objectives. "In the old days," he says, "when a person got sick, he looked to his neighbors for help. Now, in our more complicated society, that is usually not possible. We like to feel that we are the good neighbor...
...boss of MGM, who is back in movies as an independent writer-producer, has translated this repulsive masterpiece into a snappy, sexy, phony little Horatio Alger story. The book told the story of a young reporter who, while writing the agony column for a New York newspaper, came to feel that he was being stretched upon the cross of the world's suffering. He goes insane and is murdered by one of the suffering souls he is trying to save. And what does it all mean? That nobody in his right mind can love his neighbor...
What a Man May Feel. What lessons do the great creators teach? The imitation of greatness and the intimation of immortality, answers Eliot, echoing thinkers from Goethe to Carlyle and Nietzsche. "Was not Homer a greater hero than Hector?" he asks. "He was a hero born not to slaughter other heroes but to create them, and to give them immortality. His created heroes show the astonishing size of what a man may feel and do. Thus they create new heroes in life...