Word: paines
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...indictment of humanists and alchemists alike sounds like a return to the dark ages, it is. Give or take a role reversal of church and state, the fundamentalists' case has a kind of precedent in what medievalists call the Condemnation of 1277. In that year the Church prohibited on pain of excommunication 219 propositions associated with the dominant--and Aristotelian at the time--teachings of Western culture. Though the Condemnation of 1986 exercises a completely different kind of censorship, it is analogous in the spirit of its sweeping indictment...
...affection for Boston crept slowly apace until it blossomed in 1975, and I began to understand Boston pain. I watched the sixth game of the Series from a hotel room in Salt Lake City (no beer, not even before the seventh inning), and exulted in Fisk's homer with a glee unmatched since Bobby Thomson's for the Giants in 1951. I also watched, from the same room, the next afternoon as the Sox, in the finale, took a 3-0 lead into the sixth, and then blew...
...neither Arab nor Jew," he writes. "By culture and creed, I should suffer neither pain nor passion over the causes and battles that entangle the two peoples. And yet...I cannot help caring." What led him to care was "the human dimension" of the Arab-Israeli conflict: "The question of how Arab and Jew saw each other began to emerge as...the target of my search for understanding...
...grandfather, praying with fervor." The reverie was soon interrupted by the clamor of journalists and international well-wishers. "This honor is not mine alone," Wiesel announced at a press conference later that day. "It belongs to all the survivors who have tried to do something with their pain, with their memory, with their silence, with their life...
...totally callous and unemotional killer, it is even more disturbing in that the film does not care either. Never do we see the aftermath of Arnold's mayhem. Bodies fall out of the camera shot and out of mind as well--few screams, a little blood for color, no pain, no grief. The camera moves on to the next victim, like the gun barrel...