Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When tendered by the one whose former deed brought pain...
...means a perfect book. For one thing, Griffin's reactions to his experience are intensified by his newness to it. Besides, he can always escape if he gets too scared, as he does once during a particularly depressing night in Mississippi. While he is black, Griffin absorbs all the pain being a Negro involves, but he can find none of the real pleasures of being a human being: he makes no intimate friendships, has no wife or children, grows attached to no place...
...vihuela de mono and the lira da braccio by the Ars Musicae of Barcelona, Soprano De Los Angeles exhumes some of the neglected treasures of Spanish song with happy results. The songs for the most part deal with unrequited love ("So sharp is my desire/ Sweet lady, and my pain/ I feel my life expire/ Yet dare not to complain"), and they are beautifully sung-with opulence of tone and an engaging air of gentle melancholy...
...readings with a hematocrit - an instrument that measures the concentration of red cells in a centrifuged blood sample. The normal range is 40% to 50%. Most of their heart-disease patients had readings of up to 56%. Patient after patient obtained relief from repeated angina attacks, which cause fierce pain in the chest and left arm, along with an alarming feeling of suffocation. After the doctors bled them, removing about one-third of a pint of blood, the hematocrit level dropped into the normal range...
...Wyeth the drama does not get out of hand, for even objects take on human emotion. He can paint a frozen drinking trough and make it seem as forlorn as an orphaned child. His battered barns brood about better days; a darkened window can show the same pain as the eyes of one of Wyeth's Negroes. The world that Wyeth paints is old, weary, sad and scarred. It is not nostalgia for a simpler, more homespun America that he evokes, but an enormous sense of melancholy for all mankind...