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...numerous progeny of the Class of 1933 are rapidly adjusting to life at Harvard, to the discomfort of their counselors...
...through the discomfort of appearing as a lecturer, the painter had to interrupt a number of projects he had been working on at his studio on the French Riviera, including sets and costumes for the ballet Daphnis and Chloe, illustrations for the book version and new stained-glass windows for Metz's 13th century cathedral, damaged by Nazi bombs. But to Marc Chagall, all this did not seem enough. "It seems to me that I am just beginning," he said. "It seems that I have done very little in life...
...People Go, to a meditation temple in Rangoon to talk religion with a Buddhist scholar, to Gandhi's shrine in New Delhi to pray and deliver-a little shakily-Lead, Kindly Light. Only once, before Burma's Premier, did modest Marian Anderson show any sign of discomfort. Eulogized U Nu for the CBS cameras: "The beauty and charm of your mind are fully expressed in the pair of your dazzling eyes and your childlike lips...
...Squire Mytton (born 1796), known to his friends as "Mango, the King of the Pickles." was so rich that he yearned for discomfort. Wintertimes, Mytton went hunting wearing as little as possible, once horrified the gamekeepers by duck hunting in the nude. He once cured himself of hiccups by putting a candle to his nightgown: "enveloped in flames," he was soon too badly burned to burp. Despite his Spartan attire, Mytton "had a hundred and fifty-two pairs of trousers," spent half a million pounds in 15 years, died of d.t.s in a debtor's prison...
Commonest medical complaint of the U.S. tourist is diarrhea, which may be a simple, short-lived discomfort or, in the form of amoebic dysentery, a severe, life-threatening disease. Last week, though Mexicans stoutly insist that their country is not so bad as others to the south, Mexico City's local government took a major step toward eliminating what is variously known as turista, the Aztec two-step, and Montezuma's revenge. In the capital's big, sparkling new Jamaica Market, and in a dozen smaller ones, watchful health inspectors installed a rigorous system of spraying fruits...