Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humor is one way to meet an insoluble obstacle and ease insupportable pain. Peter Nichols' tender play tells of a shaky marriage held together by a spastic daughter. Donal Donnelly and Zena Walker deftly balance laughter and pain...
...succeeded, a grandmotherly woman took her place in a line of Parisians that quickly formed to pass the stones to others who were building a barricade. On the Boulevard St. Michel, a student sat atop the barricade, casually ignoring the danger. Police lobbed grenades. Another student dropped in pain. Still another was hit in the face. On the Left Bank, a medical student in blood-smeared white coat pleaded with the demonstrators. "For God's sake, stop it. You'll all be massacred. The hospitals can't take any more...
...Humor is one way to meet an insoluble obstacle and ease insupportable pain. Peter Nichols' tender play tells of a shaky marriage held together by a spastic daughter. Donal Donnelly and Zena Walker deftly balance laughter and pain...
Witches' Sabbath. What follows is a leisurely lover's lesson on the giving and receiving of pain that makes John Updike's Couples read like a children's bedtime story. Besides incomparable good looks, Yuichi has the aphrodisiac of complete heartlessness going for him. Other people exist only as narcissistic mirrors in whose admiring eyes he enjoys himself. The old novelist gives him speeches on "the joy of being without feeling." He hardly needs them...
...unloving family. What they had instead of love was intensity. Thus Grandfather Pritchett, a minister, "looked like a sergeant major who did not drink." He beat his carpets and his sons with "a genial sadistic touch." Pritchett concludes that his own father was partly playing the pass-on-the-pain game. (Authors who have suffered Pritchett's critical thrashings may believe the same...