Word: felted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imagine that you are a young person at the height of your career--specifically, a career which demands physical energy and vocal skill. Now imagine that one day you looked down at your left arm and found it shaking uncontrollably. Imagine that you felt your muscles becoming rigid and your gait hesitant and unsteady. Imagine that you had no idea how to stop these symptoms. Imagine that a doctor told you that you have Parkinson's, a disease usually associated with (but by no means limited to) the elderly. In the later stages of the disease, communication becomes nearly impossible...
...Everybody hated in the system [in 1996]. Some of the anger was legitimate," she said. "People felt that the welfare system didn't provide enough requirements for people to move into the work-place...
...This uplifting sensation was almost immediately eclipsed, however, by the realization that I would never belong to this stage, performing the show for which it's known. Before self-pity could consume me, however, this feeling was replaced by the hard realization that every female performer in the cast felt likewise...
...current format of the Pudding, celebrated as "traditional" and linked erroneously to a 150 year history, was actually only solidified in the mid-1970s at a time when all-male Harvard felt threatened by an influx of lower class and non-white students and was beginning a reluctant merger with Radcliffe. The current form was one of protest, in which cross-casting moved from a reluctant necessity to the central tenant...
...felt that the cartoon was clearly a worthwhile commentary in favor of affirmative action and minority rights," said Patrick R. Luce, the managing editor who selected the cartoon for publication...