Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Half-blinded, hardly able to manage the ludicrous war dance he likes to use to "unlazy his legs," Tommy kept coming back to tag his tormentor with occasional punches. After ten rounds, Tommy's manager, Lippy Breidbart, a man with a high threshold for someone else's pain, tossed in the towel to give Machen...
...inward-in wild frenzies of Hasidic worship or in equally wild flights of the imagination. In this kind of life, the storytellers became the soul's best physicians; drawing on their tradition, later writers such as Russia's Sholom Aleichem created a whole literature in which pain and happiness, the worldly and the supernatural come together under a canopy of wry humor. Two books, written by exiles from Eastern Europe, have much of Aleichem's rewarding piety...
...that the last sixteen years of his life were made physically miserable by cancer of the jaw, for which he underwent 33 operations. Freud had to wear a prosthesis, an artificial palate, which could never be made to fit comfortably, and which distorted his speech and face. His physical pain was compounded in this period by personal tragedies: the deaths of his daughter Sophie, his grandson, his mother, and the defection of his close friends, Rank and Ferenczi, both of whom subsequently died insane. These were "deep, narcissistic losses" to Freud...
During this life of personal trial, Freud continued his same cheerful stability and love of a life of intellectual adventure. He refused to take drugs to kill his constant pain, he said "I would rather think in torment, than think unclearly." He did think clearly, until the end of his long life. Moses and Monotheism, which was published a year before his death at the age of 83, is marked by clarity of ideas and exposition, although this attempt to apply psycho-analytic theory to the cultural phenomenon of religion was of more dubious validity than his other work...
...until well into 1958, with an upturn starting late in the year. Only five expected a steady rise throughout the year; only four predicted a continuous decline. Said Leonard Smith, commercial research manager for U.S. Rubber Co.: "This is one of those modern recessions where no one feels much pain. I am convinced that it's not going to be very deep...