Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, is the degree of spontaneity and emotional depth that mark Hardin's in-person performing. He has one of the most poignant voices in the folk field, seemingly always about to crack or lapse into a sigh, as if the effort of every graceful phrase cost him pain. His melodic songs of love, loneliness and loss are romantic yet rigorously crafted ("You look to me / Like misty roses / Too soft to touch / But too lovely to leave alone"). This is by far the best record yet by a sensitive and gifted performer...
...helpless feeling of being confronted by something totally unknown, and then trying to find an answer to it and being unable. People fear death because they have to explain it and can't; and they can consciously not fear a vaccination because they know enough about the pain...
...Department of Music plans to build a $2.25 million addition to Pain Hall within 18 months, A. Tillman Merritt '29, chairman of the department, said yesterday. The funds are now being raised...
...first Vice President, John Adams, once compared himself to "a mere Doge of Venice." Thomas Marshall, the 28th, said that "the Vice President is like a man in a cataleptic state: He cannot speak; he cannot move; he suffers no pain; and yet he is perfectly conscious of everything that is going on about him." That classic view of the office has changed drastically, partly because the chief executive's job has become so burdensome that genuine help from the Vice President might be highly useful, but more obviously, because John Kennedy's assassination has dramatized the fact that...
...final torment, Lear cradles the lifeless body of his heart's love, Cordelia, uttering the desolate fivefold "Never" over the daughter whom he will never see alive again. By that time, the odyssey of suffering is complete, and Cobb has elevated Lear's pain into a kingship of the spirit...