Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political emotions are fading. Says Alex Robles, a prosperous home-builder who fled Cuba in 1960: "To move back would be just as big a dislocation as coming here. I wouldn't go through the pain." As Mario Vizcaino, director of the city's Cuban National Planning Council, puts it: "Ten years ago, to become an American citizen was almost an act of betrayal. Now there is a growing awareness of voting power, that the voting booth is the place to get things done." Coupled with that attitude is a developing feeling that perhaps the U.S. is, after...
That leaves only the Crimson linebackers to talk aobut. Sabetti's play dulled the pain of Beling's loss, at least for the moment, while on the other side it's becoming clear that when you say "Bob Woolway" you've said...
...Mort Sahl. Most, he says, were ambivalent about their Jewishness and compulsively turned to humor to ward off their private demons. As Joan Rivers told Janus, "If I were marching to the ovens, I'd be telling jokes all the way." What makes them funny, says Janus, "is their pain...
...Junior high was a pain in the ass. They had me doing solid geometry, or algebra, and third-year Latin was not pleasurable. See, I had no father. My father died when I was young so I had no iron discipline as a teenager, and when I became a teenager, my mother became a pushover...
...increase in the actual number of whites and nonwhites going to school together-the real aim of integration-has been small. A similar failure to achieve much actual integration occurs in many forced-busing cities, as Armor keeps pointing out, but at a much greater cost in pain, dislocation and plain cash...