Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...danger so long as he avoided contact with steel. Sukarno thus decided against the kidney surgery advised by his medical specialists, instead relied for a cure on a team of Chinese herbalists and acupuncturists (practition ers who pierce the bodies of their patients with long silver needles, to relieve pain...
...start getting cautious, you start to lose." Nobody has ever accused Palmer of caution. On the course, he is a duffer's delight: when his putts hang on the lip and his drives stray, Palmer bangs his clubs against the turf, twists his face into a grimace of pain, mutters angrily: "Stop hitting like a woman!" or "Head down, head down, for God's sake!" It is at the crucial moments, when most golfers get rattled and come unstrung, that Palmer plays his best golf. "When I have a feeling that I might lose, it charges...
...those who are attacked continue to contribute. Why? Is a lust for pain? Yes, in some case Heroics? Perhaps. The writer stand for something. He becomes an emblem of the great trial, and everyone sympathizes with him, nay, sings his praises without reading his work...
Meanwhile, the enigma. He goes on writing. If you talk of pain, he will sigh. If you talk of heroism, he will smile expansively. If, after this you ask him why he writes, he will probably shrug and keep his silence. What is there to say? Like the rest of us, he is only human. "I write," he says, "because I am miserable if don't write...
...sufferings of college students. An ex-girl friend of Wilson's writes him an awkward, semi-literate letter which in a very Holden Caulfieldish way does articulate a few of the longings of a coed, and some of the pathos. All too often, however, Mr. Brown's cries of pain come from the same gland that secretes cheap emotionalism, and all too often, again, these cries seemed aimed at someone not in the general audience...