Word: discomfort
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...dealer. A vast trolley yard stood where the KSG now stands, and Quincy was under construction. Radcliffe and Harvard shared only classes, and few extracurricular groups were co-ed. Two years after Brown v. Board of Education, we were almost entirely white, disproportionately preppies, and insensitive to both the discomfort of our very few minority classmates and the wider civil rights issues fermenting around the nation...
...hard to find a comfortable place for your arms when you're in bed at night, you're probably feeling Don's pain. Cuff discomfort is usually a "night pain" in its early phases. Ball throwing and racquet sports become uncomfortable but you can still manage to play - it's the pain later on, especially at night, that first brings the patients in. Overhead activities like putting up books or stacking dishes on a high shelf give the same hard-to-pinpoint shoulder and upper-arm pain. Cuff patients start avoiding movements that make them exert force at a distance...
...story of The Discomfort Zone is largely the story of Franzen shedding his fears, or at least learning to live with them. And the success of The Corrections has been a big part of that. "I really hit the jackpot," he says, sounding as if he's still freshly relieved. "I wrote the book that I wanted to write, and then--which couldn't be counted on--it got a tremendous amount of attention. So that burning feeling of being unrecognized for what I felt myself to be is momentarily alleviated...
...based in Manhattan, he and his girlfriend spend part of the summer near San Jose, Calif. Basically, he's happy for the first time in his life. He has even made a truce with his old nemesis: next month O magazine will run a two-page spread on The Discomfort Zone. "I'm not sure all is forgiven." He thinks about it and chuckles. "But maybe...
...down on fear and embarrassment and disappointment, but you can never quite go cold turkey. "The double bind, the problem of consciousness mixed with nothingness, never goes away," Franzen writes in The Discomfort Zone. And he never does find that owl. But somehow it doesn't really bother him. "Much of bird watching is about disappointment," he says. "Part of the appeal is that really, more often than not, you don't see what you're looking for. The great pursuits are more about failure than about success...