Word: pains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They take running shoes with them on business trips, hoping to squeeze in a jog between meetings; they argue the virtues of their Adidases and their Pumas; they boast of surmounting new thresholds of pain and experiencing the mysticism of the second wind. They are the evangelists of fitness, a religion that has captivated the nation. We examine the phenomenon in our Living section this week...
...Pain Barriers. Much else is involved, some of it probably undefinable, but it is clear that over the past decade or so, the general population has been receiving messages from its outposts. The women's movement has made it acceptable for women to think of their bodies as strong, sweat-producing machines. World-class swimmers and distance runners, who lowered records by training to exhaustion, talked of pain barriers that could be broken through to achieve new levels of performance...
Strindberg, of course, means us to view the wife as the catalytic agent in both men's pain and disaster...
...University Hall could find out who he was to get him to stop. Through the Matthews proctor the freshman dean's office let four or five possible Tarzans know they wanted no more yells. "We admired his sense of dramatic, but the crowds were getting to be a pain in the ass," Young says. "We told him he could have two more chances...
With infinite resignation [the man of faith] has drained the cup of life's profound sadness, he knows the bliss of the infinite, he senses the pain of renouncing everything, the dearest things he possesses in the world, and yet finiteness tastes to him just as good as to one who never knew anything higher, for his continuance in the finite did not bear a trace of the cowed and fearful spirit produced by the process of training; and yet he has the sense of security in enjoying it, as though the finite life were the surest thing...