Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces use this need to build heroic groups of which each member is a passionate unit. The kid gang protects its own and each member protects the gang. The family was once a thing like that. The kid gangs do dreadful things but the dreadful things require courage, sometimes pain, and a kind of dedication. The same virtues turned in another direction would be called heroic. The kid refusing to sing to the cops is a delinquent. The same kid refusing information to a military enemy is a hero. If this loss of inter-responsibility is one of the main...
...with an Age of Violence twist. Unabashed in dialogue if a bit evasive in theme, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof had Williams' usual plunging force and reckless, unbraked use of it. Maxwell Anderson's harrowing The Bad Seed (about an eight-year-old murderess) wallowed in pain for pain's sake, used tragedy for matinee shudders. Though effective, it never provided-as did Joseph Hayes's The Desperate Hours-the exhilarating tingle of a good thriller. A tidy whodunit, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution made murder a pleasure...
...change the locale, the time, any detail which might embarrass the subject he has chosen for his literary portrait. In Faithful are the Wounds, Miss Sarton neglects such precautions. The novel has, for people who have lived through the event she describes, all the impact and all the pain of a newspaper account or a contemporary history. But Miss Sarton does not bind herself to the accuracy such forms demand. She can swipe out at the living and make her blow felt, writing as she does half from fact and half from fancy. Such writing is not satisfying in literature...
...operation for a series of patients selected by Dr. Pearson, attending physician at Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. The procedure, no longer rated dangerous, takes only 1½ hours. Many patients are up and about the next day; within a week they report a loss of pain or even discomfort. Some who had been resigned to an early death have begun virtually new lives after hypophysectomy controlled the recurrence or spread of colonizing cancers. Maintenance medication is simple: regular tablets of cortisone and thyroid hormone suffice for most; one in four also needs pitressin (to control water balance...
...downs of daily life" have been stripped away. "Strange, but I didn't feel any resentment or hatred at all," he reports after being tortured. "The cleansing of the spirit makes you see the world from a new level way above what is known as pain or fear." Most affecting of all the letters his mother has collected in this book is the one Kim wrote his sweetheart just before the Nazis executed him in April 1945. Kim, then 21, said: "Promise me-this you owe to everything I have lived for-that never will the thought...