Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English department, who have admitted current membership in the Communist Party. The faculty committee report on them was composed of a report of five members who recommended that the men be retained; a disagreed with the majority reasoning: and finally the dissenting reports of three members who also felt that the two men should be dismissed...
...other central arguing point was the proposed orientation section. Gilbert claimed that by the time the Register came out much of the orientation material would be dated and that freshmen could get it elsewhere anyway. The proponents of the plan felt this was a valuable and necessary extension of Register coverage from the customary names, pictures, addresses formula...
...felt that the University had been a little too liberal in their policy," Stewart added. "Our committee met January 11 . . . and found measures of restraint to be necessary." No specific reasons for limiting club parties were mentioned, however...
...already famous as the author of Crime and Punishment, decided to become a newspaperman again. He had tried it before, without much success. In fact, journalism was a bad choice for a man who needed all the elbow room of the Russian novel for self-expression. But Dostoevsky felt full of miscellaneous ideas and Messianic urges, and besides, he needed the money. When the aristocratic and crotchety Prince Meshchersky offered him a job as editor of The Citizen (salary: 250 rubles a month), Dostoevsky accepted...
...summer his job was particularly hateful; without his family, which was in the country, Dostoevsky felt lost. He suffered from nightmares in which his little girl was flogged to death as she piteously cried, "Mamochka! Mamochka!" His only solace was a girl who read proof for The Citizen. They would sit up late, reading galleys over a kerosene lamp and arguing about God and Russia. Sometimes he would explode in fits of rage, pounding the table and shouting "The Antichrist is coming! . . . The end of the world is near at hand...