Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...justification for the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet party boss last November expounded a new policy asserting that members of the Socialist Commonwealth have the right to intervene in the affairs of another member whenever the purity and primacy of socialism are endangered in that country. Foreign Communists who feel most threatened by the policy, notably the Rumanians and Yugoslavs, fear that the So viets will use the doctrine not only to keep any socialist country from defecting to the Western camp, but also to enforce their own brand of political orthodoxy. As Lumea, the Rumanian foreign-news weekly, declared...
...sensitive man's response to an early stage of a fundamental transformation in the human condition. The great change that had set in by the middle of the 19th century still rolls on, gathering speed and extending its breadth. Today, as in Marx's time, men feel the change as both a threat and a promise. It evokes fear and hope simultaneously. The Marxist vision is a peculiar, sometimes deadly-but for many men an effective-way of perceiving the moving society and relating themselves...
...drugs to find favor was chlorpromazine (Thorazine), used to reduce the severe anxiety of patients with advanced cancer. Serendipitously, it was found that when their anxiety was lessened, so was their perception of pain -though not necessarily the underlying sensation. Many a patient said: "Doctor, I still feel the pain, but it doesn't bother me so much...
...decades there has been an increasing interest in baroque music. The orchestras have done nothing about it. There is a growing interest in avant-garde music. Nothing is being done." No one objects to preserving the masterpieces of the past, as a museum keeps Rembrandts. But some musical experts feel that there may be more orchestral museums than are needed. English Conductor Colin Davis, 41, a strong possibility to head either the New York Philharmonic or the Boston Symphony some day, is one of them. "You devalue your masterpieces if you play them every week," he says...
...enjoyed a healthy success this season at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery. She considers her heads, among other things, a kind of social commentary. "Look at the censored faces in the street," she says. "You can almost see people saying, I'm not going to be caught feeling.' My figures feel right because they're all tied down. They may look frightening at first-after I had done a few, I ran out of my studio. Then I began to see how defenseless they were...