Word: pained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy in the dingy downstairs corridors, on the creaking steps and in the second-floor hallway (with its sign reading, "Gentlemen will not and others must not spit on the floor"). In the drab courtroom, decorated by an American flag and five advertising calendars, Negro voices were raised in pain and anger. And outside the old courthouse, shabby for all its pretensions of Greek revival elegance, a Negro crowd roared hope...
Color Shots. Novelist King, 33, who spent a winter on Corfu with the Somerset Maugham Award money received for his last novel, The Dividing Stream, has scraped the marrow of his Greek characters. He recognizes their fortitude under real pain, their histrionics over emotional trifles and their bristling pride. Above all, he captures their gift for draining each passing moment of life as if it were a glass of their own villainous retsina wine. Author King overexposes and underdevelops his hapless English hero, but his color shots of Corfu are snapped with the eye of a Matisse, and Patrick...
Other factors are of course important. The absence of marked persistent electrocariograph changes, irregularities in the heart's rhythm, and pain from temporary closing or spasn of the coronaries, are all reassuring. They indicate that branches of the other coronary have established collateral cirulation to the area once served by the plugged vessel, and that the area of dead heard tissue is not large...
...adequate health facilities, the medical service should provide the needed twenty-four hour service near the Yard. The added expense of maintaining two doctors through the night, one at 15 Holyoke Street and the other at Stillman, is a small enough price to pay for insurance against needless pain and possibly avoidable deaths...
...writing of Long Day's Journey Into Night was a purgation: in it he has faced ghosts that haunted him during most of his life-time and forced him to understand and reveal them to his own soul. The result is a play which, though heavy with the pain and despair and fruitless sorrow of human life, transcends all these as a testimony to the endless and inescapable power of man's love...