Word: feels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saying how he'd do this--when the details start coming this month, the sledding gets rougher for Bradley--but his words are thrilling to the chastened idealists on the porch, people who feel betrayed by Clinton and want to believe again. Still, some of them wonder if Bradley's ideas are a winning platform in the America of 1999. During the Q&A period, someone praises him for dreaming big dreams, then asks, "Why, sir, are you more electable than Gore...
...white-checked shirt--short-sleeved and semitransparent so you can see his T shirt. He sips tea from an extra-large mug. Everyone else in the room drinks from a small white one, each stamped with a large red number--144, 78, 33--which gives the room the feel of a lottery. He is 63 years old and tan. It is easy to picture him dispensing gentle ideological wisdom to President Jiang Zemin or Prime Minister Zhu Rongji, providing them with Marxist cover for their very non-Marxist policies...
...return, I may not remain. For the rest of my life, I want to travel around like a bhikshu, or Buddhist mendicant. I have received many invitations. Monks come here from monasteries all over Tibet, and they invite me to come and stay with them. But I feel it's better just to visit these places. So I will wander about. And from time to time, I will even come back to see my friends outside Tibet. Some genuine friendships have developed during this very difficult period. That is really precious. I want to keep these friendships till my death...
...vision. Who are these interlopers? The Czars? Boris Yeltsin? The IMF? It's not clear. But surely the implication--that the masses' self-rule was a foolish aberration--is not one the author, who nearly died fighting for democracy in the Spanish Civil War, would have considered a feel-good send...
...talk about his dream. "I didn't tell my mom until two days before I got called up to the majors," he says. "I had a job and a family. To drop all of that for something that was just a dream, I didn't know how she'd feel about that." He was also worried about his wife, who has to raise their three kids on her own while he is away. His former students still stop by his house to have dinner with Lorri and offer to mow her lawn. And Morris calls home each night...