Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told a reporter we were all at fault: The Police Department that didn't teach its officers the job for which they were hired. The Housing Authority that ran the Towers as a slum. The School Department that made Towers and other project kids feel unwanted. And the city manager, Council, School Committee, and mayor who had suspected all that and had not managed to change...
...didn't feel like the best row we've ever had," Yeates said. "Rowing into a headwind slows you down...
...lived there for years, and New Yorkers even named a street in his honor. But these days would dapper Duke Ellington feel at ease taking the A train 2 1/2 miles north from midtown Manhattan to black Harlem? Not if he believed the vision this New York City community conjures up in the minds of apprehensive whites: a postnuclear landscape of poverty and blight, where crack dealers plan gang wars in cratered tenements. To most Manhattanites from the wealthy southern part of the island, Harlem hardly exists, except as an old, obscure head wound -- the beast in the attic...
...missing out on Harlem's cultural and historical bounty. Prudent visitors, black or white, can ride a tour bus or a subway uptown during the day, drive or call for a cab at night, stroll with a worthy purpose on a Sunday-go-to- meeting afternoon. They will feel as comfortable on Amateur Night, with its superefficient security staff, as they would at Carnegie Hall. They will be made as welcome at a restaurant like Sylvia's as they would at an aunt's dinner table. They can take care and have...
...Abyssinian congregation makes every timid white sojourner feel serenely at home. At the service's end, one parishioner approached a visitor, extended his hand and said, "Thank you for joining us. Won't you come again?" It is an invitation no "foreigner" could refuse, after a trip uptown that he began in fear and skepticism and ended by believing the unbelievable. "Harlem," he says, invoking Duke Ellington, "I love you madly...