Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing political power of the poor and uneducated immigrants, notably Irish and Italian, compounded antipathies of members of old elites who felt their own control threatened. To them Catholicism was alien, corrupt; priests and prelates, manipulated long range from the Vatican, contaminated the clear streams of American individualism. Al Smith's presidential campaign in 1928 stirred up poisonous anti-Catholic passions; Smith was a measure of how far Catholics had come in America and how much of an imminent danger they were. "We must save the U.S. from being Romanized and rum-ridden," a Virginia Republican committeewoman wrote...
...They felt uneasy about me, about being close to me in a small car. I think they felt not exactly certain of what I might do next. And I knew they would not have felt better about it if I had told them I didn't have the faintest notion, either, of what I might do next, today, tomorrow, or ever...
...decision took a long time to make," says the 6-ft. 1-in., 220-lb. Cornell sophomore. "I'm very interested in hotel-restaurant administration, and the business courses offered at Cornell are the best in the nation. Plus, I felt it wold be good experience playing under coach (Bob) Blackman...
With a father whose hockey, football and baseball history is a legend in the annals of Harvard sports, you'd think the sons might shy away from having to live up to such a reputation. But, the 1953 graduate says, "I never felt that, but I'm not sure they didn...
Others are less convinced. Susan H. Goldstein '80, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, thinks the creation of a Harvard cheerleading squad is "almost embarrassing." When Goldstein went to Harvard football games freshman year, she remembers, "people would always make fun of the other team's cheerleaders. We felt elite, because we didn't stoop to that...