Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British philosophers and essayists of the past three centuries are more admired than read. Impeccably cool and collected, preening themselves on their rationalism, they leave the present impassioned age cold indeed. Yet these writers played a large part in shaping modern notions of good and evil, pleasure and pain, freedom and tyranny. They are also eminently readable, writes Basil Willey, English-literature professor for 18 years at Cambridge. His engaging little book may well spark a rationalist revival...
...Ball," George A. K. Armah describes a little boy who disobeys his mother once, is punished, and is puzzled by life. That's all. Within fifteen lines the style varies from "Behind the soft sweetness of the aaahh there is hidden a mighty pain which will not be satisfied until the sea has exacted its vengeance," to "It was not that his mother was cruel or anything like that...
...akin to pain...
...riding with a couple of titled Europeans on the bridle paths of Long Island's Piping Rock Club. His horse reared, threw him, fell on him, and smashed his legs so badly that bone protruded through the skin. For the rest of his life he was in pain. He lived much of the time in a wheelchair and on crutches...
...still point of the turning world. Not even Dag Hammarskjöld's close friends knew that this dispassionate diplomat was a tormented man who poured out his emotions in highly impassioned poems, aphorisms, haiku and prayers, dealing, as he put it, with "birth and death, love and pain-the reality behind the dance under the daylight lamps of social responsibility...