Word: paines
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...know about. The author did a particularly good job in expressing the issues. I applaud her candor. I hope she will continue to speak out and I will share her article with the young women in my life. I hope they will not have to suffer the same pain. VIRGINIA M. GRANDISON McLean, Va., March...
Then I turned to the editorial page of The Crimson and read "Shattering the Silence" (March 6), a searing, anonymous account of a rape survivor who, like me, is in the Class of 2001. Her story, like many accounts of rape, is filled with pain and anguish. "Even though I now consider myself a rape survivor," she writes, "very few people know that I have been raped. This is partly because I don't want to share the most traumatic event of my life with casual friends. But perhaps most importantly, I still fear that I won't be believed...
...cover stories, led by the writing of the great James Agee (excerpted earlier in this issue), focused on the dropping of the atom bomb. Later in that issue, in a new section called Atomic Age, TIME wrestled with the historic and moral implications of what passed for progress: Pain and a price attended progress. The last great convulsion brought steam and electricity, and with them an age of confusion and mounting war. A dim folk memory had preserved the story of a greater advance: "the winged hound of Zeus" tearing from Prometheus' liver the price of fire. Was the world...
McCurry's frustrations have at times spilled over into the briefing room. One week into the scandal, he told reporters, "I think you all know the constraint that I'm laboring under here, and I don't want to belabor the pain and anguish I feel." Two weeks ago the spokesman himself became the story, when he suggested to a Chicago Tribune reporter that Clinton's ultimate explanation of his relationship with Lewinsky was not likely to be simple or innocent. (McCurry later explained his comments as "a lapse in my sanity.") Even McCurry's famous jokes...
...emotional pain caused by someone else's disbelief or belittlement of an incident that robbed me of my voice is too difficult to bear...