Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sisters," we are treated to a choice piece of cant as Nin tells of a father who "made a ceremony of burning D.H. Lawrence's books, which betrays how far behind the times this family was in the development of the sensual life." The worship of Lawrence is also felt in the language of these stories. It imitates without flattering. The result is not even very sexy. "She lived open and sensitized to his presence" and "all other women were cancelled by her voice" are not much of a substitute for the real thing. The frustration of the "Collector" becomes...
...threw a slider and felt something pop," the junior right-hander said after the game, nursing his limp arm. "I just put a little something extra on it, I guess," Alevizos added. "I've never felt anything like it before...
...Last year some of the guys named the area between the fence and the track building Sten Plaza," Stenhouse said. "Before the game, I told everybody I had to visit Sten Plaza once today. I'm glad I did. It felt great...
...differences were felt most keenly last week at the monthly meeting of the Federal Reserve Board's Open Market Committee, which determines the pace of money growth and interest rates. The 17 members, seated around a 30-ft. mahogany table in the room where some of the most secret plans of World War II were drawn up, faced an exquisitely difficult choice. They had to decide whether to further tighten credit and raise interest rates, thus taking the risk of tipping the nation into recession, or to maintain rates at their present levels, which might worsen inflation. Their deliberations will...
...curious irony of capitalism," he writes, "that among the only outlets rich enough and powerful enough to stand up to an overblown, occasionally reckless, otherwise unchallenged central government were journalistic institutions that had very, very secure financial bases." Hence the rage that so many politicians have felt when major news outlets threaten the status...