Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...younger sons, Emad, 23, typifies the pain of the occupation. He has not been given permission to work in the West Bank or to emigrate elsewhere because of the fiery anti-Israeli speeches he delivered at Bethlehem University. Young people are coming to believe that only force can bring a solution. Though Abu Nabil does not believe violence will win back the homeland, he reluctantly agrees that words are not enough. "My generation can fight only with our tongues," he warns. "Theirs will have to fight with guns...
...Cheng, who lives in Washington, for the first time this past March. "Her refusal to confess is absolutely extraordinary," says Friedrich. "As I spoke to her over lunch that day, I thought to myself, 'Would I have signed? Would I have given in, to spare myself the pain?' I looked across the table and knew that...
Many bond investors have been taking a bath, since the price of fixed- income securities falls when interest rates rise. In April alone, bondholders lost more than $100 billion. The pain was shared by small investors who have poured money into bond mutual funds. At the end of March, those funds had assets of nearly $310 billion, up from $142 billion at the end of 1985. The mortgage market was also hard hit by the rise in interest rates. Says Lyle Gramley, chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association: "Some people called it orderly panic in the bond market...
...takes 500 pounds of plankton to produce those silversides. It takes 5,000 pounds of microscopic sea plants to produce those plankton animals . . . 'All flesh is grass.' " Yet there is not an ounce of false sentiment in his speeches: "It probably doesn't make sense to talk about pain in a fish . . . an angler who had caught a perch told of finding himself unable to remove the hook without taking one of the fish's eyes out of its socket with it; he threw the fish back, baited his hook with the eye, and a few minutes later caught...
This sort of grandstanding must surely offend writers who have suffered physical and mental pain under the Soviet system while Yevtushenko flourished. But that is an old, sad story of envies, misunderstandings and compromises that the author does not confront. Rather he defends his style on the justifiable grounds that poetry springs from rude experience and common speech...