Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were held last summer, the government, through its minister in charge of police, Captain Craig, poo-pooed them as "green parades." The government implied that it considered the civil rights organizations to be a new variety of the old fashioned Ulster Republican. Naturally, the police in Ulster began to feel the same...
...know that there are many good solutions to the problems of theatre in a university," he said last week, "and I will be glad of the opportunity at Princeton to work hard in an area of teaching I feel ought to be a legitimate part of any modern curriculum-and also to continue teaching in a departmental situation...
Unlike the army of Hemingway romanticists who cultivate fighters to show off their feel for the sport, Gardner has a real understanding of the ring and the nameless people who are scarred by it. With a poetic touch and dry swift phrasing, he has created a remarkable portrait of a marginal, subterranean world in which two fighters and a manager occupy numbing neutral corners in the struggle for life...
...accurate. The true pathos of fighting as a subsistence trade, he shows, comes not from scheming and exploitation but from the slow corruption of courage and spirit. "Fat City," as fighters sometimes call success in boxing, is bankrupt. The long sleek cars, the sweet shock of public recognition, the feel of silk on skin is, for most fighters, pure celluloid fantasy. Their daily rounds are marked instead by steady pain and a sameness that is itself the mark of most hells...
DeVore explained his statement with one of the Joint Committee's two reasons for keeping Stauder: "Even a person who might disagree fundamentally with Jack's goals or approach, would nevertheless feel that it's inhumane and unfair to fire him summarily at this late date...