Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Idealism for Schiller, Atkins emphasized, did not mean the offering of a Utopia, but rather a spirit of freedom which harmoniously combined feeling and reason. Nor was there any "blind romantic idealism" in the poet's system, for Schiller felt that pure freedom existed only in the realm of dreams and that practical freedom was limited by moral...
Atkins also pointed out that Schiller was a "modern" poet since he knew the abyss between the real and the ideal could not be bridged. Schiller felt all art was merely a representation of idealism and should not be confused with real history. Action alone, not moral sentiment, determined drama...
...turbulent pineapple workers' strike of 1947 and the longshoremen's strike of 1949. President Truman appointed him tenth territorial Governor in 1951, and he held office unobtrusively until displaced by a Republican (Samuel Wilder King in 1953). Long has held office as territorial Senator since 1956. He felt so confident of his election to the Senate that he took a one-week sabbatical after the primary to attend an international Lions convention in New York...
Thus did Andrew Berding, U.S. State Department briefing officer, thumbnail last week the immobility and futility of the Big Four sessions at Geneva. Secretary of State Christian Herter confided to aides that he felt "degraded" by having to sit and listen to Andrei Gromyko's laboriously unyielding speeches. At last came the point when, over coffee in the U.S. villa, Herter told Gromyko that he was leaving Geneva in a week-to attend a meeting of the Organization of American States in Santiago, Chile-come what might...
...tagged along to watch his high school team in a national meet, sat fuming as the contestants splashed haplessly up and down the pool. Finally, Yamanaka stalked down out of the stands, entered the 100 meters-and won. "After watching the slow swimming," says he, "I felt I just had to get in there...