Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silent scream" of the title comes from a fetus in the womb--shown by an "ultrasound," computer generated picture--whose mouth opens as a doctor conducts probes necessary for an abortion. Presumably, the fetus reacts to perceived or potential pain...
...friends other than Helen Kroger (Dana Ivey), and cannot bear the thought that Helen has lied to her and feigned devotion. In torment, Barbara rages at the snoopers: Spying on spies, she rants, is the moral equivalent of spying. She aches with desire to tell Helen to flee. Her pain is more than loyalty: it is a burning need to legitimize her own feelings...
...that is most likely to find its way into anthologies. Set on Ireland's noted isle of pilgrimage in Lough Derg, Donegal, the long poem describes two journeys, one a pilgrimage of prayer, the other a search for self. That quest, and the thoughts it inspires, brings as much pain as enlightenment. In a typical passage, Heaney, who grew up in Northern Ireland, bitterly remembers the Catholic ghetto, and "how quick I was to know my place." In another, he faces the ghost of his cousin Colum, killed in the sectarian violence. "You confused evasion and artistic tact," the murdered...
Winning the trust of patients can be painfully slow because of the burdens of their past. "Absolutely everything they had taken for granted and counted on was removed," explains Richard Reoch of Amnesty International's London office. "It's a moral inversion where every human being you encounter has as his purpose to be cruel, to inflict pain, to lie or make you feel worthless." Victims suffer not only from severe injuries but also from survivor guilt, depression and a form of weary aimlessness born of disorientation, sleeplessness and recurrent nightmares. Fear of authorities is so deep that almost...
...Beta Kappa membership and less-than-hot for parties. Adams House's Westmorcty Court and Senior House are splendid and supremely spacious places to live; Mather's low-rise--at least this year--is not. Living at the Quad and having to take a bus to classes is a pain...