Word: paines
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Student homogeneity is a problem at both schools. Precisely because they are all bright and scientifically inclined, they lack diversity and suffer psychological shocks when their high school A's suddenly turn to C's or worse. Caltech's Feynman tries to ease the pain by wryly reminding freshmen that inevitably "half of every one of Caltech's classes is below the class average." Yet M.I.T. English Professor Barry Spacks finds his students refreshing because they "exhibit none of the pretenses and gamesmanship of places like Harvard -if they don't know...
...Scholar-Sheik Abu Zahara defended the double-standard system of polygamy on the ground that "it has put a limit to the chaotic side of social life." He also upheld the essential humanity of such traditional Arab punishments as cutting off the hands of thieves and flogging adulterers. The pain is acute and the experience humiliating, the Sheik admitted, but it does not last as long as the Western way of punishment, imprisonment...
...Reverend Hale, played Swedishly by von Sydow, is so unswervingly dogmatic about his job that he soon exhausts the audience, which watches his predictable life-story with bovine good nature, groaning "Oh no, not again!" at his every line. Julie Andrews stoically survives the pangs of sexual frustration, the pain of childbirth, and the ravages of time, until the make-up department decides she can't take any more, at which point she is allowed to die offscreen...
That night, after a brief appearance at a Columbus Day parade on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, Johnson made an eloquent plea for interracial understanding at a Brooklyn gathering of Italian-American businessmen. Reminding his audience that Italian immigrants had once experienced "the raw pain of discrimination" that is felt by Negroes today, L.B.J. added: "I ask those of you who have crossed the river to extend to them a helping hand...
Gary Singleterry leaned back on a table in the visitors' dressing room at Holy Cross yesterday, his face racked with pain as a doctor set the broken bone in his left leg. The blond freshman punter had almost singlehandedly kept the Crimson alive in the first half, but now he was out for the season--the victim of a roughing-the-kicker tackle in the third quarter...