Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fearful Brave New World is indeed close at hand. It was not until the Year of Our Ford 632 (according to the 1932 novel) that babies were to be grown in laboratories like fungi, happy citizens were to be conditioned by sleep teaching and there was to be no pain, no disease and-theoretically-no independent thought. Now, says Huxley, "The nightmare of total organization . . . has emerged from the safe, remote future." Main factor: the birth boom that has jumped the world's population from 700 million at the time of the American Revolution to 2.8 billion today...
...past mistress of the grand operatic exit, did it again last week. After her closing performance in Bellini's Il Pirata, she stalked out of Milan's La Scala-for good, she said-and probably out of Italian opera as well. "I leave La Scala with deep pain," she said. "It is no longer compatible with my dignity as a woman and an artist...
...boat dead or go back home and die of a heart attack. Secondly, rope doesn't give the fish a fair chance. If you can't fish for fun, then you haven't any business fishing. These guys out after publicity give me a pain in the neck...
...normally for medical care in a year), we have, we think, a right to expect from the Health Service at least the care we would get from a private physician. To us, this includes the right to have a doctor come to our bedside when we are in pain. Radcliffe does not agree. "Except," (and here we quote a physician at Stillman Infirmary) "except in cases of impending death," Health Center physicians do not make house calls. This seems to us barbarous and miserly...
...challenge is grim. A person with no sensation in his legs or arms cannot even feel in those limbs the burn of an oven-hot radiator, the pain of a hard fall, the bed sores that breed serious infection-all bad risks that he must be alert to avoid. To stimulate circulation, avoid kidney stones and prevent his joints from locking and his bones from decalcifying, he must somehow rise to a standing position for at least an hour a day, a dizzying feat that is aided at first with a special tilt-table. The patient is also faced with...