Word: pained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consumptive. These four haunted characters spend their long day's journey into night gnawing at each other. They sit around the living room table drinking, talking, baring their minds, hating each other, yet cemented together in one miserable unit of family love which survives all the bitterness and pain...
Pakistan over Kashmir and the North-West Frontier, Pakistani leaders have waited for a word of public support from Washington. To them, $450 million in past U.S. military and economic aid has simply not assuaged the sudden pain. Complains Pakistan, anchor of both the SEATO and Baghdad anti-Communist pacts: the more that neutral India and Egypt play up to the Reds, the more economic aid Washington seems eager to force upon them. Last week U.S. Ambassador Horace Hildreth † went on the Pakistani radio to quote figures showing that neutral nations have received one-twelfth as much monetary...
...first time I realized what for many years I had sensed vaguely but never grasped. To have your body imprisoned behind prison walls is degrading. But to have your mind captive with invisible chains is far more degrading. In the democratic beholder such a spectacle creates a pain and nausea difficult to describe or overcome...
...properly betrothed. A rich young man appears and speaks for Miya's hand. Her parents, who later say that they "must have been possessed by a golden demon," urge her to break with poor Kan-ichi and take the rich man. Blinded by duty, Miya accepts. Insane with pain, Kan-ichi shrieks that "from this night forward I cease to be a human." Since money has mastered him, he will master money. He becomes a loan shark. Miya, meanwhile, is miserable with her wealthy husband, and he with her. Eventually, Miya and Kan-ichi meet again in the ashes...
...broker mills are grinding, and Hari, as he almost admits to himself, is secretly relieved. Amrita's clan also starts making other arrangements. Still spouting defiance and undying love, Amrita and Hari find that the sight of each other is not a stab at the heart but a pain in the neck. At novel's end, Hari is leading Sushila seven times around the ritual wedding fire, and Amrita is in seventh heaven over an "England-returned" Bengali intellectual...