Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This way, even if one does not agree with the sentiment of a prayer, one can accept it and learn from it in a historical-religious context. I reflected on this bit of wisdom from the rabbi several times that evening, and, by doing so, felt a strong sense of unity with many generations of Jews who had read the very same prayers over hundreds of years...
President Bush never accepted that argument; he still believes that the tax code should promote social and economic goals. He told reporters last week, "I supported the tax-reform law, but in last year's campaign there were one or two areas where I felt that we needed to use the tax system to achieve various ends." Democratic leaders too have lost the faith; their proposed expansion of IRAs would also violate the no-special-breaks principle. Consequently, Congress can expect a flood of demands from other taxpayers who will claim that their income deserves special treatment. Writing...
Over the next few weeks she visited their house, saw the baby's room. There were phone calls and counseling sessions at the Independent Adoption Center in Pleasant Hill, Calif. In the private conference room there, Nicole felt happy with her choice. Still there were some delicate points to resolve...
...Evanses, Nicole and their new daughter Rebecca are just beginning to work out some answers -- a process that is not without pain. Nicole admits she felt "a tearing away" when the Evanses went home from the hospital with the baby; she paid her first visit the very next day. "It's been hard for us to hear the true sadness in Nicole's voice," admits Jan, "when we have felt so much joy." More than once Nicole has had to battle the urge to pick up Rebecca and run, particularly when Jan went out shopping and left them alone together...
...into his own series of screaming Popes. Picasso did a knotty and unsuccessful series of "variations" on his work, attempting to reconstruct it in terms of something other than empirical vision. Velazquez's influence appears in unexpected places: if, for instance, one wants to know where Philip Guston felt some of the authority for his last paintings lay, where those eloquently clumsy speckled gray-and-pink shapes looked back to, one need only consult passages in Velazquez like the extraordinary plumage of the headdress worn by Queen Mariana for his formal portrait of her in the Prado...