Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legacy of Pain. In one of two compelling off-Broadway offerings that do have unity of tone, meaning, and performance, a consciousness of massive injustice and personal sorrow settles movingly upon the playgoer. In White America is a poignant chronicle of the Negro's centuries-old legacy of pain, oppression, and denial, from the days of slavery to the present hour. It is an evening of dramatic readings thoughtfully culled from the statements of Presidents, the reminiscences of ex-slaves and ante-bellum Southern matrons, the rantings of bigots. Sensitive actors make the word intolerance become flesh, tortured, torturing...
...White America, pain is self-contained; in The Trojan Women, grief screams like a woman in childbirth. This Edith Hamilton translation of the Euripides classic has been directed by Michael Cacoyannis with brooding eloquence, cyclonic passion, and such cruel inner hurt that the stoniest playgoer must seek relief in tears. Pain paints the backdrop like a sky of blood. Pain drums the floor boards in the rhythmic open-palmed agony of the bowed women who must become the slaves and bedmates of the conquering Greeks. Pain frantically grips a little boy between his mother's legs before...
...started rereading college catalogues-and decided that Princeton was brainier. "I don't want to end up as just Old Satin Shorts Bradley," he explained at the time. Duke Coach Vic Bubas only sighs and clutches his chest. "Every time I hear his name, I get a sharp pain right here...
Goldwater himself was plainly feeling some pain. "I'm in a position of major reassessment," he told newsmen. "My people are out all over the country asking questions." As for Johnson, Goldwater said: "I like him. I think he has a chance to be a good President, a great President...
...that television cameras on the scene missed. For the News, Photographer Jack Beers snapped a picture, a split second before the killing, that showed Jack Ruby's gun aimed point-blank at Oswald. Times Herald Photographer Bob Jackson caught the actual moment of shooting and the grimace of pain on Oswald's face, the looks of horrified disbelief on the faces of his police escorts...