Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come, he has nevertheless advanced along the road to full equality in U.S. society. Millions have achieved what Martin Luther King calls a "sense of somebodiness"−a new self-respect and selfesteem. To say, "I haven't got a chance" is to inflict a great self-injustice. There are at least 35 Negro millionaires in the U.S. Every sizable city has a large middle and upper middle class of Negro physicians, dentists, lawyers, judges and businessmen. They are just as interested in living in the "right" neighborhoods, traveling in the correct social circles, and sending their children...
HERZOG, by Saul Bellow. The misery of an unwanted divorce and custody case and the psychological desolation they inflict on a man of good will are remorselessly pursued by Bellow...
...Presidential election. And 1964 should be no different. Lyndon Johnson will probably carry Illinois, one of Barry Goldwater's "must" states, by at least a 60-40 margin. What makes Illinois interesting this year is not the LBJ landslide but the defeat which incumbent Governor Otto Kerner may inflict on Charles Percy, darling of liberal Republicans and Presidential hopeful...
...blow, chipped tooth, broken bone, and gout of blood and vomit described in detail; when a gang of transvestites and their boy friends get high on gin, Benzedrine and morphine, with every ensuing act of sodomy and fellatio described in detail; when a gang of dockworkers, derelicts and degenerates inflict multiple intercourse upon a prostitute in a parking lot so savagely that she is killed, with every drop of beer, blood, spittle and semen described in unrelenting detail...
...time." The dreamer evidently has a prosaic fantasy-life: the play turns our to be a straightforward polemic against a gallery of standard evils--hatred, social injustice, fate, racial prejudice. Blackstone, a gentle Negro heavyweight, can't kick the habit of goodness in spite of the suffering whites inflict on his race. Tiger, the blind man who wishes he were "better dreamed," and Fancy Dan, an embittered ex-convict, take their knocks with less dignity. "A little love somewhere is better," counsels Saroyan; "too much hate melts the bones, makes me cry." His scandalized commentary serves passably as a vehicle...