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...Spot. The anguish of parents put European governments on the spot. In West Germany, health departments were making plans to train 2,500 or more deformed children and to fit them with artificial limbs. In Britain, Socialist Lady Summerskill asked the government to consider legalizing abortions. It refused. In Belgium, a young couple and their doctor were in jail, awaiting trial on a charge that they murdered a malformed thalidomide baby with an overdose of another sleep-inducing drug...
...deserted White House at dusk with sheaves of work under his arm. After 18 months in the presidency, during which he has suffered as many downs as ups, the President these days looks cool, controlled and relaxed. Those who see him regularly think he has tempered his anguish at being unable to remake the nation, or to win over Harry Byrd, overnight. But they report him far from resigned to the way Congress has cut up his domestic program...
Because of these laws, I left South Africa two years ago. They did not affect me physically, for I am white, but the mental anguish was more than I could stand, since I spent much of my time in police stations trying to locate my African workers who had been ar rested for pass law offenses; the experience made me more frustrated and more aware of the treatment of blacks under apartheid...
...artists have recorded so searingly the anguish of their time, for almost every drawing or lithograph Kathe Kollwitz produced turned out to be a cry of pain. Last week, in honor of what would have been her 95th birthday-she died in 1945 -the East Berlin Academy of the Arts had on view 106 of her works, all but a few in stark black and white. Since she had spoken so lovingly of the proletariat, the Communists have tried to make much of her, but their stern and sterile ideology would hardly have found comfort in Köthe Kollwitz...
Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis. In a superb retelling, the great saint's life reveals physical anguish endured with spiritual strength...