Word: felted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense of loss for John Kennedy, too, like Milton's sense of loss, is more abstract than personal, and yet is personally felt because it connects with our private hopes for bright young futures. Nothing is as attractive as the sight of young people flinging boisterously into life (see the American women's soccer team), and the thrill comes as much from wishing them well as from anything of their own doing. Admirable young people speak for life itself, and when they stop suddenly, everything stops...
That Kennedy proceeded despite these dangers did not surprise some people. Stories circulated last week that friends and family members feared for his safety every time he climbed into the cockpit. Recently a colleague demurred when Kennedy offered him a lift from Boston to New York, explaining that he felt uncomfortable in single-engine airplanes. Kennedy shrugged off the concern. "When you have two [engines]," he reportedly said, "if one goes out, it's very difficult to steer the plane, because the other one is working." Of course, if one goes out when you have only one, you're left...
...staff members there will never forget his flair as a manager. Kennedy often wore shorts and a baseball cap to work and brought his dog Friday to the office. He furnished his corner office, which was on the same floor as the rest of the magazine, modestly. "It felt like a college newspaper," says the former staffer. "We were once on deadline, feverishly trying to get the magazine out, and he walked in and said, 'Let's go to the park and play touch football.' People were appalled, but they appreciated a gesture he made in the fall...
...gravestone of his father. He leaned forward and stretched toward them and put his hand upon each with a touch that was more like a kiss. It was an act of great physical grace, and love, and maybe it was done in part on behalf of a country that felt as he did--a generous gesture like the one 30 years before when a little boy made a salute...
Ziggy Marley, now 30, and the family band have been making music for more than a decade. But Ziggy always felt that something was missing. "The best part of the music was never heard by the people," he says. "Because the best part is the beginning--when I'm sitting down writing the music with an acoustic guitar. There's so much feeling, so much chills. We wanted to get that across." To bring back the chills, the group brought in veteran producer Don Was (a respected studio vet who has worked with Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones...