Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contemporary economic policies have attenuated, though not eliminated, the peaks and troughs of the business cycle. Recessions are not only unavoidable but often beneficial?despite the pain they cause some individuals?to society as a whole. They can purge the system of excesses, failed products and mismanaged companies. Since World War II such slumps have been less severe; social programs like unemployment insurance mean that they are not as painful as in the days of unbridled capitalism...
...situps. Things were going very well, too well, I decided. I needed more stress to bring my will to maximum power. I turned to my old reliable method of ordeal by fire. This test would have to exceed all others in destruction of tissue and time of severe pain...
...Craddock is a novel in which we see Maugham working out his familiar obsessions--the mother endangered in pregnancy, the stillborn child, the pain of love, and the quest for freedom. Just as Maugham identified with his mother, he makes Bertha Craddock his alter ego...Bertha represents both Maugham's mother and Maugham; she is the unconsciously disguised homosexual lover...
Johnson: Yes, I do think there's a tragedy about Jimmy Carter, and I'll tell you why. I'd been thinking back about how I felt and many people felt when he became president. We had gone through all these shocks, pain, anguish even: the murders of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy--it didn't matter whether you were left, right, liberal, conservative, Black, white; everyone who offered himself up for national leadership from John Kennedy to Jimmy Carter had been destroyed. Here comes someone totally fresh, who seemed to promise so much, and would be a different kind...
...simple. But Caan refuses to heighten this classic confrontation between soulless bureaucracy and the individual who has no weapons on his side. Dramatically, the underplaying of Hacklin's frustrations may be a mistake; one yearns for a scene in which Caan busts loose, gives full vent to his pain and anger. Yet there is something touching in his patience, his refusal to generalize his case into an indictment of society. The discontinuity between the care the Government is willing to lavish on a helpful hood and its indifference to a good but anonymous citizen who is impeding...