Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moral evil because it strikes, through its burden of suffering, human beings in their flesh and heart . . . bringing insecurity, anguish for the next day, and often misery...
...FELLOW DEVILS, by L. P. Hartley (413 pp.; British Book Centre; $3.95), introduces wealthy, prim and Protestant Margaret Pennefather, who hesitates when glamorous Colum Maclnnes proposes marriage. Not only is he a Roman Catholic but his origins are vague; though he has gone to an approved public school, Nick Burden and other classmates think him rather a bounder. Worse, Colum is a film star who looks like Marlon Brando and plays gangsters and crooks...
Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist, by Philip Magnus. The triumph and tragedy of a true believer in the white man's burden, a Briton as archaic, absurd and appealing as a guardsman's busby...
...drunken, pointless; it lacks everything except passion and a kind of intermittent gentleness that at its best seems better than the best kind of conventional security. But Carmian finally learns that a lover who lives from day to day and embrace to embrace can only end by becoming a burden...
Increased scholarship stipends will be "considered" for both new freshmen and for upperclassmen in the Houses. However, it has not been definitely decided whether scholarship increases will take up the full burden of the rent hike...