Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history shows that postponement often increases the pain. As he ponders his problem, John Kennedy, a student of history, might well recall what James Monroe, that cautious President, wrote to Jefferson in 1822, the year before promulgating the doctrine that bears his name. Monroe was explaining his decision to risk European anger by recognizing the revolutionary governments of Latin America. "There was danger in standing still or moving forward," he wrote. "I thought it was the wisest policy to risk that which was incident to the latter course...
...hand, accepts his visions of the Virgin and Child with the same simplicity and sureness as he does the goodness of being alive: doubt could not arise in his mind with regard to either. It is between these two pure extremes that the knight, Max von Sydow, agonizes, the pain of his struggle exacerbated by the other forms in which faith presents itself: as terrified fanaticism in the monks and soldiers--in the flagellants, as a masochistic disease...
...bitter awareness that his great gifts needed as great a discipline to create the form in which they might be expressed. He was only 24 when he wrote, promising to send a copy of his book of poems. Permit Me Voyage: "I am in most possible kinds of pain . . . and the trouble revolves chiefly round the simple-sounding problem of how to become what I wish I could when I can't. That, however, is fierce and complicated enough to keep me balancing over suicide as you might lean out over the edge of a high building but with...
...artists have recorded so searingly the anguish of their time, for almost every drawing or lithograph Kathe Kollwitz produced turned out to be a cry of pain. Last week, in honor of what would have been her 95th birthday-she died in 1945 -the East Berlin Academy of the Arts had on view 106 of her works, all but a few in stark black and white. Since she had spoken so lovingly of the proletariat, the Communists have tried to make much of her, but their stern and sterile ideology would hardly have found comfort in Köthe Kollwitz...
...known in Manhattan as "El Barrio," home to the huddled masses of the postwar wave of Puerto Rican immigration. The ingredients of this melting pot are concrete, corruption, and the vast hurrying indifference of the megalopolis. This is where the new American is made the hard way-out of pain, dirt, disease, violence and death...