Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pleasure and Pain...
...Eastern religious teachings. Now it is Psychologist Richard Solomon [Nov. 10], with his theory that "in its early stages any attachment is controlled mainly by pleasure, but late in the attachment the main control is the threat of separation and loneliness." In short, clinging to pleasures inevitably produces pain...
...appear to have brought blacks and whites on campus closer together. Says Wesleyan Professor Long: "In the nine years that I have been here, this is the first time the university has coalesced to speak to a common concern." Concludes Campbell: "Despite the cruelty of its motivation and the pain it has caused, this latest incident may yet serve a beneficial purpose by reminding us how far we have come and how far we still have...
Within City Ballet, Darci Kistler has been watched closely since her first school workshop performance. During rehearsals for her final student appearance in Swan Lake last May, she had a hip injury, but danced "full out" the whole time. Says a friend: "She covered the pain for two hours every afternoon. It was sheer determination." Says Irina Kosmovska, who began teaching Darci in California when she was eleven: "Darci was a fountain of energy. She tried everything. She was one of my most intense students-she would commit suicide on the floor...
What has sparked renewed interest in these procedures is growing evidence that they can indeed alter behavior. Originally, the goals were modest: the relief of pain caused by a misaligned Dick Tracy jaw, for example, or the treatment of constant drooling by a deformed inmate who could not close his mouth. But as Bear and Joy told a conference of their colleagues in San Francisco, these operations often pay dividends for society. Joy points with pride to a once unpopular prisoner at Virginia State Penitentiary, an antisocial murderer who, after surgery to correct a grossly protruding jaw, finally...