Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spoke movingly of her struggle to decide how she should act in America. With no guidance and little experience with truly independent choices, she bent to what she felt was expected of her--to live as a memorial to her martyred associates. Now, though, she is studying English and hopes to use what she is learning in the U.S. to strengthen the pro-democracy movement in China. She is beginning to look ahead...
...people who got the shit were Cambridge students. I felt very torn during the incident," says Holdt. "In their minds, they [the Harvard students] are these rich, snobby students in their town. I think those impressions will always exist...
...admits that Eliot believed in the idea of cultural uniformity and that he felt "some Jews" fought counter to this ideal. But she also defends the expatriate poet as "anti a great many things" and for whom, she says, Jews were not particularly important as an object of scorn...
Schwartz also experienced strong feelings of insecurity. Simpson writes that after Schwartz had entered a New York restaurant in a lively mood, he suddenly turned sullen because he felt vulnerable when he was not seated with his back to the wall...
...seemed appreciative of the time and effort on the part of the students," Donziger said, "and...he did seem surprised that there were so many letters. We felt like the dean demonstrated remorse over these comments as he did in earlier over comments he made in national publications...