Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Antoine, an obscure Caribbean island. The Caribbean sun is soothing, but the islanders are fomenting revolution; and the steadily more surreal chain of events that lands Rennie in a tropical jail teaches her only, in the end, that she cannot ever muster the strength to make herself "exempt" from pain...
...workers and indignant real estate brokers are only two legions in the growing army of Americans victimized by the recession of 1982. The list of their comrades-in-suffering is virtually endless. Land-off auto workers, welfare mothers, farmers, savings and loans, and small businessmen are all feeling the pain of economic contraction. And according to the public opinion polls, the sufferers are increasingly blaming the man who in 1980 promised to usher in an unprecedented era of prosperity by cutting taxes spending and regulation President Ronald Reagan...
...melting-pot America of legend, plunging straight into the English language in school was a matter of pride and sheer survival. The pain of learning, and of leaving one's immigrant parents behind, was justified as necessary for progress and assimilation. But by the 1970s, prevailing notions about education and ethnicity had changed. It was believed that the cultural heritage of each student should be preserved. Accordingly, new waves of immigrant children, the majority of them Hispanics, were provided with bilingual education, as the Federal Government prodded schools to give them instruction primarily in their own language until they...
...luxuriated in the warmth and intimacy of his family's Spanish language and the separate, private world of his home. It was only when his teachers finally prevailed on Rodriguez's parents to try speaking English at home that his education began. And so did "the inevitable pain" of growing away from his parents culturally. That process of growth and separation, he insists, is part of all education...
Memories dive through pain toward enlightenment. In Greyhound People, a woman rides a bus between San Francisco and Sacramento and rehearses the slow desertion of her ex-husband: "Looking back, I now see that it began with some tiny wistful remarks, made by him, when he would come across articles in the paper about swingers, swapping, singles bars. 'Well, maybe we should try some of that stuff,' he would say, with a laugh intended to prove nonseriousness." She traces the next stages, including a period of "a lot of half-explained or occasionally overexplained latenesses, and a seemingly...