Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eggs, been trampled by a charging elephant resulting in total deafness of one ear, climbed a 100-ft. tree, despite acrophobia, and with only one arm free, brought down a writhing mamba. He has been bitten by snakes half a dozen times, recorded his numbed sensations and degrees of pain with cool scientific exactitude, and never used antivenin. He has had an entire native village flogged for disobedience and has no qualms about flogging ("It is simple and effective and very widely understood"). He has also spent an entire year in tortuous bureaucratic negotiation to have a tribe restored...
...table, looking like a Valkyrie about to be immolated on her shield. Her youthful, pretty face was contorted. An intern was gently examining two fingers of her left hand, which had just been crushed in a car door, causing no serious damage but a great deal of pain. Trying to anesthetize the patient with small talk, he asked: "What do you do?" The patient gripped a cotton pad soaked with smelling salts. and winced as she spoke. "Oh, dear God," she said, laughing and crying simultaneously. "I'm a humorist...
Bound & Free. Psychiatrists and theologians know, of course, that a certain amount of guilt and anxiety is inevitable and necessary in man. They are like pain: "bad" because they are discomforting, but in normal quantities necessary for survival because they warn of danger and because they make a human being responsible to others. The rare individual who feels neither guilt nor anxiety is a monster?a psychopath with no conscience. What psychologists call Urangst, or original anxiety, the anxiety that is inevitably part of any human being, is well described by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who believes that it springs from...
...Self was a proud and preening god. Nearly a century ago, Walt Whitman trumpeted: "I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious." The Self as deity pursued power (Faust) and pleasure (Don Juan). It achieved satiety, the rake's progress "from pain to ennui, from lust to disgust," which Fitch finds symbolically typified time and again in Aldous Huxley's heroes. At the end of Point Counter Point, the lovers, Burlap and Beatrice, "pretended to be two little children and had their bath together. And what a romp they had! The bathroom...
Comedy indicates a "different temperament" from tragedy, Bentley said. "It prefers only to hint at the serious side," while tragedy confronts pain directly, "taking terror by the hand." Comedy "veils its feelings with eloquencies, while tragedy is a "long lament...