Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tenuity; and stooping shoulders with a long slouching gait did not add anything of grace or beauty." Yet grace and beauty were Robinson's hallmarks both as a man and as an artist. He was racked by asthma throughout his 44 years, but he let no sense of pain enter his paintings...
...figure is a charge nurse (Shirl Conway) who has the voice and manner of a rich Connecticut matron with old money and old blood. The opening episode took place in a maternity ward and was full of knowing chatter about centimeters of dilation and uterine cancer. Women writhed in pain. One died on the operating table. The dialogue was as phony as the obstetrics. Charge Nurse: "Do you want it straight. Miss Lucas?" Some other time...
Long Day's Journey into Night. Life is depicted by primitives as a serpent that eats its own tail. The serpent signifies a state of being in which pleasure and pain, life and death, eating and being eaten are the same thing. To a primitive, this state is paradise. To a conscious man. it is madness. To Eugene O'Neill, it was home. And this home, the family that nourished and devoured him, that cosseted and tortured him to greatness, the playwright has described with withering hatred and burning pity and heartsick unutterable despair in a tragedy that...
...never forgotten it. As a matinee idol he got rich quick, but for fear of the poorhouse he ruined his career and destroyed his wife. When he made a hit in a cheap meller, he played nothing else for a decade. And when his wife had a pain one night, he sent her to a cheap quack who cynically put the poor girl on morphine...
...Memorial Hall with pain, if they care to recall it at all. Registration never was one of the more attractive aspects of Freshman Week, with its long line of salesmen and club recruiters...