Word: discomforts
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...more than a game. They are obsessed with their mother's clothes and wear them at every opportunity. It is as if a part of their mind were trying to erase the maleness of their body and allow an inherent femaleness to emerge. As they grow older, their discomfort with their gender often increases, until finally they turn to doctors for help. Some take feminizing hormones to grow breasts. Some even have their sex organs surgically altered so they can live completely--including anatomically--as women...
...staff recognizes that individuals have a right to smoke and does not wish to persecute fellow students for making a personal choice. However, the widespread discomfort and possible health risks that accompany second-hand smoke as it drifts through the ventilation system lead us to call for stronger anti-smoking measures in Currier House...
...arrived at Harvard as a transfer student, I was given a key to New Quincy room 305. I entered the suite expectantly, surveyed the large, open and dusty common room, and climbed the stairs, Bedroom A was occupied. As was bedroom B, C and D. A sudden sense of discomfort gripped me. Where, then, was I to live? "In the common room, I guess," was the answer I got from Scott, one of my new roommates. And so for ten days, I slept on a bed in the common room, with no furniture, no privacy and no quiet...
...slightly creepy centerpiece is a Q. & A. between Kennedy and a deaf, pain-wracked George Wallace (the disturbing photos, again by Ritts, testify to Wallace's discomfort). The interview isn't particularly informative; rather, it's fascinating as an encounter between two very different American icons. Kennedy's nervy if occasionally J-schoolish questions annoy Wallace; the unforthcoming replies stymie Kennedy. Q. "Do you think we'll see a black man elected President in your lifetime?" A. "Well, my lifetime is very short--I'm 75 years...
...friend is handsome, brainy, son of a distinguished family, successfully married, light-skinned in a city (Washington) where--a source of ideological discomfort--light skin proclaims the black elite. He was educated in the Ivy League, has climbed high in his profession. But precisely the reasons for which he should feel self-respect, airtight reasons for a white man, raise confusing interior questions about his identity as a black man. Or so I surmise. Hence the anger. Ellis Cose wrote a book called The Rage of a Privileged Class about black executives and law partners who earn half a million...