Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British may win the war, but considering the patriotic fervor of the Argentines, the Falklands will always be a pain for Britain. Don't cry for Argentina. In the long run, this war may signal the emergence of these proud people...
...giving . . . It is unconditional." But his tone was paternal rather than condemnatory. Though the church refuses Communion to those in second marriages, John Paul spoke to the divorced with sympathy: "Christ himself, the living source of grace and mercy, is close to all those whose marriage has known trial, pain or anguish. We must reach out with love, the love of Christ, to those who know the pain of failure in their marriages...
...reasons for doing so are painfully clear: he had become a drunk and a philanderer with a "need to live in turbulence." But the author's account of this period is totally without rancor. There was plenty of pain for husband and wife, but also a parade of fascinating people. Randall Jarrell visited, slim, elegantly dressed, talking like a hillbilly; he twanged out such expressions as "Gol-ly!" and "Ba-by Doll!" Blackmur's wife Helen kept Princeton abuzz with gossip because she so openly scorned the role of faculty wife. When her husband told her that...
Natasha Pearly '82 believes in fate. It was her destiny, she says, to inject democratic principle into Harvard's humdrum bureaucracy, even though powerful deans objected to the pain in their backsides. She couldn't help it. It had to be done...
Paradoxically, then, members of my class share, more than anything else, the experience of having been very much by themselves in shaping their personal experiences here. Even the needless pain that some of us endured as the result of too much begin neglect also binds us together. No one, not one person who will don cap and gown tomorrow, is graduating from this University naive. Our task now is to channel that savvy in such a way as to avoid the temptation of haughtiness, bitterness, or cynicism. In 1982 as in 1949, 1968 and probably 1994, a Harvard degree...