Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group slides into the "new gospel" of freedom. Here McLean's quintet (Lamont Johnson on piano; Scott Holt, bass; Billy Higgins, drums) wheels uninhibitedly through the cycle of human experiences, expressing exultation with rollicking riffs, wonder with gentle breathings, anxiety with abrasive scurryings, and finally the pain of death with wrenching, atonal probings...
...healthy and happy companion to her children, the closing of a nearby playground to erect an apartment building, or the prohibitive costs of higher education. In a recent poll published in Eugenics Quarterly, only two per cent of women practicing family limitation did so for "general social reasons." The pain of an unwanted child is personal. 30-33 per cent of all lower-income families and seven per cent of all college educated families experience that pain. One fifth of all deliveries in Cambridge City Hospital are to unmarried girls who feel that pain...
...face but our own past, with its strange innocence and its strange need to be redeemed?" he wrote in an essay in 1963 What is nostalgia but love for that part of ourselves which is in Heaven forever removed from change and corruption? A woman, loved, momentarily eases the pain of time by localizing nostalgia: the vague and irrecoverable objects of nostalgic longing are assimilated, under the pressure of libidinous desire, into the details of her person...
Long, Light Sleep. At London's Charing Cross Hospital, a team led by Dr. Peter Nixon relies on sleep to ease the coronary occlusion victim through the first dangerous days. Their reasoning: pain and fear may be important factors in throwing a weakened, damaged heart into fatal arrest. They give their patients two sedative drugs, promethazine and pethidine (a synthetic equivalent of morphine), to keep them in a light sleep for one to seven days; the average has been 2½ days. Nurses wake the patient three times a day for hygiene, to take liquid food...
Providence has hardly been McCurdy's lone nemesis these past years. Northeastern and particularly the indefatigable Flora twins, Bob and John, have also proved a pain in the Crimson's respiratory system. McCurdy reserved his choicest comments for them. "You know," he once stated, "I'm a gardener during the summer, and two twins named Flora just put the finishing touches on us." Other well-aimed barbs have included the following: "Something is just not right. I just swear when I see them. Damn their souls. If we had some of that weed spray, I would have sprayed...