Word: felt
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...mention in the book that a long time ago, live music felt threatened by records. And then later, recorded music felt threatened by recordable cassette tapes. Now it's MP3s and illegally downloaded music. Is this a real threat, or are people just worried about nothing? Every time these technological advances came along, the people invested in the music business at the time took it as a threat to their livelihoods. If you had a phonograph player in your house, why would you ever go outside of your house to listen to live music again? In the 1980s the music...
...because, again, I see myself in those girls, and the fact that we cut across socio-economic backgrounds, that we invited girls from public schools, from parochial schools, kids from private schools, and that they're all sitting around the table as equals in this place, where they all felt some level of intimidation, right, so the playing field was relatively equal, it was a beautiful night...
...personal growth. FAS should not be making budget cuts that seriously endanger this core element of undergraduate life. Rather, the burgeoning administration, which has seen a staggering expansion in recent years, must take a fair share of the budget cuts and look to consolidate. We realize cuts will be felt across the board—but it would be a shame if they weren’t felt at all in the Harvard boardrooms...
...seemed only foreign correspondents and a few Germany commentators were asking, however. If any of the people in the sold-out opening-night audience at Admiralspalast felt a bit of angst about laughing at blond-haired Nazis singing "Europe, we're going on tour," they got over it pretty quickly...
Then an unlikely figure entered the fray: Angela Merkel. German Chancellors don't usually weigh in on church matters, she said. But when the Vatican gave "the impression that it could be possible to deny that the Holocaust happened," she felt compelled to demand that the Pope repudiate the idea, lest it affect relations with "the Jewish people as a whole." In essence, Merkel (a Protestant) was tutoring the German Pope on his responsibilities to the Jews...