Word: pain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shot followed by a scream of mortal pain! War in Europe? No, merely a suipeshooter on the second floor of Massachusetts Hall taking potshots at passers-by and getting one bullseye...
Odets does not encase this eternal situation in the snug, tight frame of the well-made Broadway "domestic drama.'' Heaving, racked, volcanic, the play belches the hot subterranean lava of its characters' anger, helplessness, pain. It draws back their skin to leave every nerve exposed. In its best scenes Rocket to the Moon is blisteringly real, its dialogue forks and spits like lightning from a scornful...
...lexicon of radio broadcasting controversy means trouble. A radio station's stock method of handling contro versial matters is to give each side an equal broadcasting chance, disclaiming any responsibility for what either side says. Pain ful thorn in the radio industry's side has long been Michigan's broadcasting priest, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, whose political preachments are pugnaciously controversial, make many enemies...
...Moscow gold" in the English-speaking world was when $2,000,000 was openly transmitted from the Industrial Bank of the U. S. S. R. via Lloyds' and other British banks to leaders of the British General Strike-most of whom were not even Communists, an excruciating pain to the devoted. They watched beefy British Labor leaders who took the money, who were interviewed by London papers as exclaiming "Thank God for Moscow!", and who then gave up the General Strike with about as much mealy-mouthed reluctance as served Britain to give up Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland without...
...voice was soft and gentle, but his soul was on fire. He, the true philosopher, was defending death--death that plucked out the nails of earthly pleasure and pain which had riveted the soul to the body and had prevented man from seeing absolute beauty, absolute wisdom, and absolute truth. He spoke of many proofs of immortality, but his hearers needed only one: the man himself. Socrates as he was dying was never more intensely, more crucially alive. He was not losing Life, he was gaining it, even though in a few minutes...