Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head. Mickey, her current spouse, cannot disagree; he feels unworthy of Jeanie, probably with cause. He drives a refrigerated truck and sells stolen meat at the behest of his boss, a remote functionary of the Philadelphia Mob. Mickey finds himself obliged to soothe his wife's pain in two ways: by coming up with the $6,000 or so it will take for a mahogany coffin and a dignified funeral and by begging his underworld connections to find out just how Leon happened to die in the first place...
...beloved columnist, peers through his alcoholic fog long enough to become aware of the un sung death of Leon Hubbard, interviews the grieving mother and falls in love with her. As Mickey's luck careers downhill, he reflects on the source of his troubles: "Alive, Leon was a pain in the ass; dead, he was killing...
Through Tommy's wide eyes, most of humanity's sins and sorrows pass in review: his mother's adultery, his grandmother's illness, the pain and death that can attend all ages and circumstances. Grownups try to keep him from the ravages of knowledge. Tommy's mother tersely declares, "We bury the dead and then we get on with it ... Grief is something we carry inside us - here, get into your snowsuit - it's not polite to inflict it on others." But there is no escaping from natural law. Tommy learns to place...
...wide publicity because of its sensational aspects, including the fact that six men were involved and that the rape occurred in the midst of cheering onlookers. The media attention has surely been personally damaging to the victim, but the ultimate value of the publicity to society may outweigh her pain...
...eastern tribes to territories in the west. There followed a dismal procession of measures designed to wipe out tribal sovereignty and assimilate Indians into the white-American mainstream. In mid-century Congress established federal boarding schools for Indian children, where they were forbidden to speak their parents' language on pain of corporal punishment; in 1871 it abolished the practice of making treaties with Indian tribes; and in 1887 it passed the notorious General Allotment Act, which divided communally held tribal lands into separate, individually held parcels. The purpose was to break up the tribes' land base and turn Indians into...