Word: pains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not try to see beyond the headlines; he knows that history is headlines, plus elapsed time. He lets time itself etch the irony, write the parody, underscore the pathos. To relive history, as Dos Passos makes clear, is not all pleasurable nostalgia; it is also to feel the pain of an intolerable madness...
Kennedy's solution for our domestic problems can be likened to giving a man who has had his arm cut off an aspirin. You might lessen the pain while he bleeds to death. The answer to unemployment does not lie in stimulating buying power through increased social security benefits, increased unemployment benefits, or raising the minimum wage...
...efficiency of the evaluating process; raising the level required, on the other hand, would only increase undergraduate irritation. Even a student who approves of Gen Ed in principle is likely to complain about having to participate in it. A high language standard is prone to be viewed as a pain, not as a "recognition of true ability...
...powerful magic of a born and practiced fabulist, the reader is compelled to understand and share such desiccation of soul. As British Critic V. S. Pritchett says of Querry-in a sense of contemporary man-"He can face a fact; he cannot feel." In the face of intolerable pain, man responds by anesthesia. His fate, made visible and horrible in the doom of the leper, is death on the installment plan...
...limbs, members, features deaden and fall from the still living body. But it is not on these horrors of pathology that Greene's imagination centers. It is the quiet, and some would say merciful, side effect of leprosy-the disappearance of sensation, of the power to feel even pain-which haunts Greene, and which he makes the basis of a novel that would be called existentialist, in the manner of Camus' The Plague, if it were not also Christian...