Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...model taught in Ec 10 describes how people choose between variously "preferred" goods. You can apply it to anything: the choice a Harvard student makes between eating at Dunkin' Donuts or Au Bon Pain, or the choice a local resident makes between unemployment or a low-wage, dead-end job at either franchise. Ec 10 encourages students to ignore the glaring fact that different members of this society inherit different levels of opportunity and access to privilege, differences which have nothing to do with the "free" market mechanism...
...columnist who now works for the New Yorker, published under the pseudonym Anonymous. If you mix the primary colors red, yellow and blue, the result is black. But this is no black comedy. It is a wistful story, about honor (Nichols says) and (we say) about the joy and pain of an idealist's love. Cagily, it asks big, brutal questions. What will we do for someone we love? What will we do for someone we want to love? When this person is a politician and has a shot at becoming the most powerful man on earth, good people...
...chapter describes the intrusion by the men of Ruby, Oklahoma--"the one all-black town worth the pain"--into a nearby former mission-school known colloquially as the Convent. Five women, fugitives each from justice, abuse or a lover's caprice, are living in the Convent at the moment when the men invade one morning and shoot them...
Maya Angelou has written that "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived / But, if faced with courage, need not be lived again." In terms of pure, unflinching courage, the Founding Fathers' "Liberty and Union Now and Forever" could not hold a candle to the muscular, subversive shock of one woman's "They shoot the white girl first." A roomful of listeners paid tribute last Friday night to a great artist, whose wizardly deployment of language continues to offer us hope that history may be, or maybe has already been, redeemed...
...enjoyable tune; and with reference only to the song, its ending works well. But as the finishing piece of a CD such as 10, "It Hurts" is rather problematic. Perhaps the song was chosen to conclude the album due to its subject matter. The tune refers to the pain of endings, finishing by repeating the refrain, "It hurts to say it's over/It's sad to say it's gone." But this lyrical significance is tenuous at best, and on a CD of melodies, the final musical feeling is far more important than coincidental words of conclusion. The quick ending...