Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find some way he can promote the King's project without breaking God's law, but at last he declares he can do nothing. The famous crisis rapidly develops. Henry angrily renounces the authority of Rome, causes Parliament to pass a law constraining all his subjects under pain of death to swear fealty to the King as head of the church as well as the state. Sir Thomas, unable in all conscience to take the oath, nevertheless decides he is "not the stuff of which martyrs are made." Being the greatest wit of the age, he decides...
Through that night and into the next afternoon, Hale bobbed about helplessly, suffering such excruciating pain from the cold that "I hoped I would die." Though he was unaware of it, nobody knew of his plight; the Morrell had not even sent off an SOS. Not until 34 hours after she sank, when another freighter came upon the floating corpse of a seaman wearing a Morrell life jacket, was a search launched. Two hours later, a Coast Guard helicopter sighted Kale's raft, and divers in rubber suits hoisted him and his three dead mates aboard...
Today's youths, said Dr. Greenson, lave been spoiled; they have grown up accustomed to swift satisfactions with a relative absence of frustration. "The great lovers in real life and in literature," he noted, "were willing to suffer great misery and pain for their loved ones-to wait, to struggle and to endure, all of which went to make the loved one more precious. The 'cool' set is used to quick and easy gratifications, Instant warmth and instant sex make puny love, cool sex, and a turning...
...author himself, intelligent, sentient, an amused and ironic observer of a society in vortex. The "I" (Bert Convy) of Cabaret is a gaping boy tourist with a typewriter. In the Isherwood-Van Druten versions, Sally Bowles focused the disorder around her in personal disorientation, sex-sipped sorrow, pleasure-bent pain. The part is beyond the technique and temperament of Jill Haworth. Sally is a mixture of waif and wanton, gin and gallantry; Actress Haworth is a tin-tongued ingenue...
...Pirandello in the play, says: "What can we really know about other people? Who they are, what they are, what they are doing, and why they are doing it?" The busybodies of the world who try to lift that veil find no truth, but they do uncover the pain at the heart of existence. If the motherin-law's daughter died, or if the son-in-law's wife was taken to an asylum, it may, in either instance, have been a reality too terrible to face. Pirandello agrees with O'Neill that man must have illusions...