Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complacently unaware that there may be any reason to. Theology, the intellectual system whereby man sorts out his thoughts about faith and grace, enjoys much less popular appeal than astrology. With its "devolutionary theopantism" * and "axiological eschatology,"* theology is jaw-breakingly abstract. And its mood is widely felt to be about as bracing as an unaired vestry...
World War I ended the age of liberalism. More than half a century before it ended, two men had felt that it was ending. They were Fyodor Dostoevsky and Sören Kierkegaard. Both men were pessimists. To Dostoevsky, the human situation was a tragic drama. To Kierkegaard, it was a tragic argument. Both men felt that the anguish of human experience, the truth of man's nature and God's nature and the relationship of God and man, could be grasped only by a new dimension of perception...
Institute of Technology. He worked as an orderly in Boston City Hospital, pored over medical books in public libraries. When he felt that he was ready, he brought suit for damages against five doctors, three nurses, and the Beth Israel Hospital...
Psychiatrists conclude that he fled Germany because he felt his isolation from his fellow Nazis growing. But plain citizens will get little help from this book in spotting psychopaths who may become leaders. Even in countries where there are still ballot boxes, political candidates do not yet throw their psychiatric case histories into the ring along with their hats...
...stockholders felt the same way. Moreover, they wanted to know why OAP had not yet kept its word to sell its share of the company and return control to private hands. This week Dave Bazelon got ready for a stockholders' suit challenging his authority to run the companies...