Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medical Center, feels that such operations should be attempted only after more conventional approaches like psychiatry, shock treatment and drugs have failed to help the patient, and then only on patients who are dangerous to others or themselves. He also thinks such operations are justifiable to help patients to bear the pain of incurable diseases like cancer. "It makes the patient suffer less," he says, "but it's very disturbing because some of these procedures change the personality...
...Family to desire would be a return to the Sicilian hills: to farm and fornicate and celebrate the sacraments. But they've got to be in business to stay alive in America. And this business requires them to kill. And when they start to kill, and to bear responsibility for men's lives, and then begin to enjoy that power--they start to think in terms of puppets and stringholders, and to hope that their sons will be U.S. Presidents rather than olive oil canners...
...mountaineer, demonstrates how to make a tall-backed wooden chair, altogether by hand, just as he learned from his own father. Photos, diagrams and his taped words capture the craft completely. They also catch the man. A collection of hunting stories grows taller and taller, ending of course with bear; it is capped by old Minyard Conner's scandalous yarn of how his granddaddy killed the bear that caught him with his britches down...
Kopit's Buffalo Bill is a Kiplingesque figure, ready to bear the white man's burden manfully to feed and clothe and look after the savages and try to civilize them. He shows genuine anger when the government leaves the Indians to starve, and even goes to Washington and tries to get the President to act. He is a civilized...
...friend, Kitty a girl in and office, who told me that her mother had filed her flat with old newspapers and other treasures she had scavenged and couldn't bear to throw away. I met her once--a plump, stooped-over little woman: It was hard to believe she had ever borne anything so young and vital as Kitty. The mother told me how she had once found and entire box of Lyons tea-cakes--"and not touched, not even opened, mind you"--on her way to visit Kitty. She called Kitty over to attest to how good...