Word: unfelt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They recognize that the distinction between a socially responsible university--which Harvard admits it should be--and a politically responsible one--which Harvard maintains it is not--is frequently not a fruitful one. They are sophisticated enough to know that the actions of a billion dollar corporation are not unfelt by society, and they argue that it's naive to think that this power can be exercised neutrally...
...many books on proper English usage already exist-Strunk, Fowler, Jespersen, Evans, Mencken-that the appearance of yet another is a case of meeting an unfelt need. One dependable authority in this field, like one telephone company, should be enough, and the English-speaking world has had one since British Lexicographer Henry...
...drains meaning from the rest of the play. "The Angel of Death," a satanic concentration camp doctor who "selects" those who will die from those who will live a little longer, taunts Father Riccardo with the emptiness of his death. His martyrdom will be unknown and unfelt. Is he dying for the Jews, when his own church has, in centuries past, itself persecuted the Jews? If God exists, why does inexplicable evil persist and triumph? "God is silent," mocks the Angel of Death. Father Riccardo finds no words or divine illumination to refute the silence or absence...
...through the suicide, the ordeal of the schoolteacher and the verger's measuring of pain, spoken a lesson of his authority and man's humbleness? Bergman draws no conclusions. Doubt darkens the ending: the pastor stands rigidly before the altar to begin a prayer to his unfelt and perhaps unfeeling...
...gauged in terms of the resentment he arouses. Sunday, in all modesty, he observed that since the Berlin crisis he has finally begun losing fans and newspapers. Need he then regret that, like Shaw, his satire is expressed with such charm and sympathy that the sting is often unfelt...