Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jong said she believes many women writers today, including Joan Didion and Mary McCarthy, "eroticize pain" in their works. "All women writers have for role models are suicides, spinsters and madwomen," she said...
...Jewish Americans in his delegation. Yet Jackson had some critical advice for the other side as well. Addressing a Nablus town meeting, he urged the Palestinians to renounce terrorism and live in peaceful coexistence with Israel. "Somebody must have the strength to break the cycle of terror and pain," he said. Then he conveyed the same message to Yasser Arafat...
...cannot yet write about Viet Nam except with pain and sadness. When we came into office, over half a million Americans were fighting a-war 10,000 miles away. Their numbers were still increasing on a schedule established by our predecessors. We found no plans for withdrawals. Whatever our original war aims, by 1969 our credibility abroad, the reliability of our commitments, and our domestic cohesion were alike jeopardized by a struggle in a country as far away from the North American continent as our globe permits...
...cannot yet write about Viet Nam except with pain and sadness." So begins Part 2 of TIME'S excerpts from Henry Kissinger's memoirs, an inside the White House view of the battles and bombings, the protests and posturings, the secret negotiations and public proclamations that finally led, in January 1973, to the signing of a peace treaty...
...torture, but it suited the Western soul's book to be able to attest to it in a distant land ruled by an oil monarch who was neither friend nor foe. A foe would not admit your committee, and to find fault with a friend would give pain...