Word: felt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year, we felt powerful, that we could do anything. We marched on the Pentagon in October, and I remember the sky sulphurous with the smell of teargas and smoke in the air. In March the President was deposed and the war was over (something about no bombing in North Vietnam). People worked for McCarthy, who lost by only a little in New Hampshire but by a lot in the Democratic convention. Still, it was wonderful to feel that you could get things done. And in May there was Columbia. Earlier, we sat in against a Dow Chemical Company recruiter...
...Evolutionary thought, particularly those varieties which felt that "the proper study of mankind is animals rather than man," and thus concluded that, since animals seemed to possess aggressive tendencies or a "territorial imperative" man would not be able to prevent himself from fighting wars...
...Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., and a man with a long history of violence, shook his head. But as Kinzel continued his advance, the prisoner's hands clenched into fists and he backed off, like someone gearing for attack. It was almost as if he felt himself inside an invisible circle into which no one, not even an unthreatening psychiatrist, could safely intrude...
...Ceylon said: "We have had enough of singing as the missionaries taught us to sing, 'Red and yellow, black and white,/All are equal in Thy sight.' What is necessary is for us to really recognize one another as equals." A tentative resolution suggested that those who felt compelled to turn to violence should first ask themselves whether all possibilities of a peaceful protest had been exhausted. This idea was quickly rejected, and one speaker explained, rather apologetically, that its author was "an out-and-out pacifist...
Virginia Woolf once wrote that after reading certain novels she felt as if she were expected to write out a check. Such sermonettes, with their demand for moral reparations for evil deeds of the past, infest the modern theater. If one were really to believe Hochhuth (The Deputy), Weiss (The Investigation) and Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy), one would conclude that the playgoer is responsible for every human crime and flaw since Adam ate the apple. The latest playwright to join this tiresome mea culpa crew is Arthur Kopit. His play Indians argues that Americans were once beastly...