Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pain & Silence. Last week, as in all weeks, the center of the revolution was in the U.S. South. In Jackson, Miss., sit-in demonstrators entered a segregated five-and-ten lunch counter, sat stoically on the stools as white roughnecks crowded around them. At first there were only insults. Then the whites seized catchup bottles, mustard and sugar dispensers, spattered the stuff all over the demonstrators. Still there was only that stolid silence...
...shepherd who leads his flock to death," the people cry, and they burn his books, stone his palace, cast his ring into the sea. Then the blinding answer comes in a climactic sweep of music: death's enriching lesson comes only to those who have suffered the pain of their conscience...
...Hans im Glück," his friends call him -Lucky Hans. Always in the right place at the perfect time, smiling, reticent, cologned-and ready with a new composition. Ideas, he says, swell his head like brain tumors, nourished as much by pleasure as by pain. When the pressure of their presence becomes annoying, Lucky Hans excises them by setting his thoughts on paper. This pleasant debility is persistent enough to have made him one of Europe's leading composers, and in the German press it has won him a new nickname. "Der Erfolgskomponist," the papers call him, which...
...hospital for a checkup. He had leukemia (cancer of the blood), but doctors did not tell him until October. The disease was then in a "perfect state of remission"-his blood count was normal-and Davis insisted that he was strong enough to play football. "I was never in pain," he complained. "I would lie there feeling good and strong, as if I should be able to leave and do what I wanted to, which was play football for the Cleveland Browns...
...through the suicide, the ordeal of the schoolteacher and the verger's measuring of pain, spoken a lesson of his authority and man's humbleness? Bergman draws no conclusions. Doubt darkens the ending: the pastor stands rigidly before the altar to begin a prayer to his unfelt and perhaps unfeeling...