Word: pained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tangle of ill-defined boundaries. The local Meos and kindred tribesmen delicately pierce the flowering buds, extract the sticky raw opium. Some of it they use themselves: when a Meo child complains of an ache, his mother may blow opium smoke into his mouth to ease the pain; for Meo adults, opium smoking provides a goofing-off pleasure that is their substitute for the combined attractions of alcohol, tobacco, literature and other forms of escapism...
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Embarrassed? No. Pain, yes. Pain for me because I hate human misery and wrote a play which said so [A Raisin in the Sun). Pain about you, because you couldn't care less. And pain for my beleaguered family, surrounded by imposed frozen financing, in a city that says it wants repairs [June...
Remembering the 30 years of battle and good-sized fortune that my mother and dad put in trying to demolish the ghetto, I experience a deep personal pain. It is true that that fight won our people some new and decent housing in Chicago, but I cannot forget that it also won my father's death and my mother's current punishment by people who apparently want the property and not repairs...
Until the birth of LIFE 23 years ago, top U.S. photographers were rare. Today, they range the earth in peace and war, catching the human face in joy and pain, laying out the world before eager eyes. Sometimes they work alone amid squalor and risk; sometimes they haunt the watering holes of wealth. Wherever they are, some 300 artist-hustlers are likely to swap fond recollections of the quiet little man who launched them: Clarence A. (for Abel) Bach, 65, founder of the first U.S. high school photo-journalism course. Last week, after 34 brilliant years at Los Angeles...