Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Impostor [June 29], Culter Academy in Los Angeles has felt the impact of the charming and intelligent Demara, who was a member of the faculty for two months. He was hired just last February to teach a section of the eighth grade. He used the name Jefferson B. Thome, and left transcripts from William and Mary in the office. In conversation he said that he had been educated in private schools in England, had been a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, a teacher and principal for 13 years in Massachusetts and for a year in Alaska...
...kill the labor-reform bill inspired by the Hoffa scandals, or at the least to eliminate the parts Hoffa does not like. Though not ready for action when the Kennedy-Ervin bill passed the Senate, Zagri made his hefty presence (6 ft., 216 lbs.) felt soon after the bill landed last April in the House Education and Labor Committee. By the time the committee got around last week to key votes, sore-boned members realized that Zagri had adapted for the lobbying craft the bullyboy methods that Teamsters made famous in trade unionism...
...opening topic, "Japan Today," Tadamasa Hashimoto appealed to the U.S. "to trust our country, look upon us as a friend, and trade with us." Friendship with the U.S., he felt, is of great importance in feeding his overpopulated country, preventing communist gains among its people, and increasing its industry...
Though "unskilled and white collar workers are certainly underprivileged," he felt that by 1970 the standard of living would equal that of Western Germany, and the present inadequate housing conditions would be reasonably improved...
...summer resorts, gathered in their own exclusive theaters and stadium boxes." The point of Djilas' attack is not privilege itself, but privilege in the hands of those who had betrayed the revolution, who fed the country a "dogmatism . . . which corroded all ethical values." Scorned-as the author clearly felt that he and an entire nation had been scorned-his unnamed heroine retreats to the rough-hewn comradeship of the stage. After a triumphant performance in a theater crowded with her enemies, she collapses on her sofa in melodramatic tears, unable to solve the curt, inexorable questions that Djilas himself...