Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that could not be punished with a bad review. But among Muslims, and not just fundamentalists and extremists, there was an almost universal judgment that he had dishonored the faith (see box). Every Muslim critic seemed to have a favorite offending passage from his book. But, in sum, they felt he had insulted the faith, ridiculed the Prophet, trivialized the sacred -- and that the sin was compounded because it was committed by a born, though not a practicing, Muslim...
Practically nobody, however, has managed to touch the sensitive nerve of a vast section of mankind as effectively as Salman Rushdie. In Bombay seven prominent writers and intellectuals, all non-Muslims, declared in a joint statement, "The pain of scurrilous intrusion into the regions of the sacred is not felt by the so-called fundamentalists only, but is the common experience of the whole, besieged ((Muslim)) minority. While there can be rational opposition to their faith, there should be no outraging of it by obscenity and slander...
...classroom and on the playing field. While trying to secure a starter's place on the football team, he played one quarter with a fractured arm. Eventually he became the team's captain and won letters in three other sports. But although he grew up affluent, Darman also felt the influence of his mother Eleanor, a liberal involved in medical social service. Later Darman mused that he "bumbled" into government work as a means of bridging his father's and mother's impulses...
...rivals. Darman filled that role eagerly. Eagerly, but not comfortably. The older Reaganauts sometimes suspected him of ideological subversion. He in turn took a grandiose view of himself as an all-purpose antidote to the amateurism of some of his elders. "Every single thing that moved," he says, "I felt responsible for." His influence rose steadily, but so did the tension level. He still frets about "all those A words they used about me at the White House," such as arrogant and abrasive. The tag "Baker aide" also grated on the Darman ego, though not enough to keep him from...
...Hamann bought their modest two-bedroom stone house 15 months ago with the help of a mortgage from the rapidly growing Wisconsin housing and economic development authority. Under its program, the 8.75% fixed-rate loan could be used for homes costing no more than $72,000. "At first I felt a little bitter to realize that we couldn't begin to live as nicely as our parents do," said Doreen, 27, an office clerk. But she and Hamann, a 41-year-old postal worker, now consider themselves lucky. "When you hear about all the young people today...