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Word: paines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to "wreck this slow, inefficient democratic system." It took the human race centuries of thought and pain and suffering and hard experiment to devise it. Democracy is not a "state" but a process; it is a way of solving human problems, a way of hobbling power, a way of protecting every minority from the awful, fatal tyranny of either the few of the many...

Author: By Leo Roston, | Title: To An Angry Young Man | 4/17/1969 | See Source »

...split up and down and sideways; its students are in deep dissension; it Faculty is in quiet, elegant strife; the nation's academe is in a kind of breathless pain; much of America simply does not understand and the whole world is watching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Watches Harvard | 4/17/1969 | See Source »

...loss of a sense of community is particularly serious. In some ways modern society binds the individual too tightly, but in other ways it holds him too loosely-and the latter causes as much pain as the former. He feels constrained by the conformity required in a highly organized society, but he also feels lost and without moorings. And both feelings may be traced to the same cause: the disappearance of the natural human community and its replacement by formula controls that irk and give no sense of security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: TOWARD A SELF-RENEWING SOCIETY | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...world on occasion a little bit too dangerous and complex. He first won renown in 1965 with grotesquely fragmented, pop-oriented paintings of animals such as test monkeys wired into laboratory chairs. Looking back, Raffael says that he thinks that he was trying to "make vulnerable paintings about pain, haltingly, blindly. But it is hard to maintain open wounds. They've got to close or be treated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Unphotography | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...starting with the first things he remembers. Object of the exercise: not make-do Adlerian therapy but a complete brainwash. "What I must do in the weeks that follow," warns his interrogator before applying the autobiographical wringer, "is find your moment of worst pain. . .during your childhood. . .and make you relive it. Then when you absolve yourself of all adult responsibilities, I shall pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Write for Your Life | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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