Word: paines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
None of these notions are unique with Trilling. They are indeed the conservative beliefs which we have today transcended. He believes that discipline is a good thing, that memorizing poetry is worth the pain, that the cult of ignorance is lamentable, that heroism is better than democratic ineptitude and conformity, that good and evil are distinct and that the difference is all-important, all classic notions which make him a little peculiar. He has no patience with the attempt of modern critics to pour everything into the artistic crucible and bring forth an indistinguishable and impalpable whole called "life." Unlike...
...Eden has resigned in the interests of Anglo-American unity, then presumably we can expect a similar gesture from the U.S. Whatever he may believe himself, Dulles is a pontifical pain-in-the-neck to most Englishmen. Let's have a new man on your side too -fair's fair, y'know...
Life, at his death, a memory without pain...
...lawyer who died at 56, never having felt keen pain. When one of his fingers was crushed in an accident, he bit it off. A spreading abscess which threatened his life evoked no pain even when it was lanced. Cataracts were removed from both eyes without an anesthetic. Only on his deathbed did he complain of a little discomfort...
...such cases, says Dr. Critchley, indifference to pain is congenital. No hereditary pattern has been detected; it occurs in different races, equally often in men and women. The painproof individuals sometimes have a poor sense of smell or taste, but their skins are anatomically normal, with the usual number of nerve endings. They feel the pinpricks or burns and can tell where they are located, but they do not react-perhaps because of an abnormality in the higher centers of the brain. In some, the indifference to pain seems to have worn off somewhat in later life. Strangely, there...