Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garden and a mailman who thinks he's Mad Max in a pickup truck. The deepest injury is to Andy's authorial ego, when his book turns out stinky and she writes next year's best seller. In Smith's bruised glare you can see the befuddled pain of anyone married to a blockhead with writer's block. But that's just subplot. The main plot is barely sodded: sound effects in place of wit, and rural goofuses who wouldn't dare show their faces on Newhart...
...totally a pain," Deborah A. Patz '88 said. "Since we have to be around here, they might as well give us food. Dinner would be better than lunch...
...because Americans like to drink. Almost all drinkers indulge their habit in moderation, with no harmful effect. Quite the reverse: alcohol is a small but genuine contribution toward their pursuit of happiness. Society has decided that the pleasure of drinking is worth the equally genuine cost to society and pain to many individuals of alcoholism, automobile accidents and so on. What's more, this social decision is correct. The world would not be a better place without booze, even if that were possible. The pursuit of happiness has its legitimate claims in the social calculus...
...amuse yourself with the mythology. Once, history tells us, entire societies were organized around warrior cults. The leaders were austere fellows like John Rambo, who kept to themselves, refusing to acknowledge pain or break training. They must have indulged in such mundane activities as sleep, sex and food, but never in front of the peasants...
Most people subscribe to the unwritten rule that prestige carries with it great responsibility. This is a great pain...