Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he died in an African plane crash in 1961, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjdld left behind a book that he had been working on secretly for 36 years, a slim volume of 600 poems, prayers and aphorisms dealing with "birth and death, love and pain." Hammarskjold's Markings (TiME, Oct. 23, 1964) was an instantaneous success. "Everybody owns Dag Hammarskjold's Markings," said retired Episcopal Bishop Malcolm Endicott Peabody. "But few have read it. Few of those have understood it." What fascinated the public, though, was far less the book's content than the striking contrast...
...Dallas tragedy. Politics are left aside, and those caught up in the event emerge as neither heroes nor villains. The Secret Service is pictured some what confused and leaderless, but other than that, no one involved should have anything to complain about-unless it is the personal pain of having to relive...
...Nancy feels fine, although she has to take cortisone shots for the pain in her still-damaged elbow, and she plans to remain in Europe for one more meet before heading home. "That's enough," she says-and the French would call that noblesse oblige...
...reality is so close to the main artery of drama's heart that it is intrinsically exciting. Nonetheless, the APA production of The Wild Duck is cozy when it should be caustic, chucklesome when it should roar with outraged laughter, genteelly aggrieved when it ought to be spurting pain. The APA troupe does its customarily accomplished job of acting and touches off sporadic match flares of understanding throughout the play, but Ibsen had a crueler intention: to drag everything and everyone screaming into unrelenting light...
Above the pain that was killing him, the smouldering temple, and above Death, He saw the people. They were tearing their hair, screaming with sorrow because...