Word: pains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is the rationale for such sadistic nonsense? Says Psychologist Gary Margolis, director of counseling at Vermont's Middlebury College: "It's a tragic vestige of ancient tribal customs in which painful initiation rites were extremely important. To prove one's masculinity you had to experience pain. The more pain, the closer the male bond became." Adds Willard Broom, Illinois' associate dean of campus services and programs: "It's all a physical dependence process. I guess it's sort of the way the Army does basic training...
Left and right we have scattered dreams, love, pain and sorrow...
...investigation into corruption during his governorship (he was never indicted), Hearnes was on the defensive much of the time. Danforth can be a tough political infighter on issues he cares about-notably, the curse of Big Government. He has vowed to go to Washington "and be somewhat of a pain in the neck...
...extramarital love. In any case Jerry, actively religious, thirtyish and ten years into a good marriage, is not one to take love lightly, in or out of wedlock. He wants to divorce Ruth and make an honest woman of Sally. He agonizes over his children. He revels in sweet pain and postures about the divided allegiances that plague him. He also collects locks of Sally's hair. In short, Jerry strikes the reader as a twerp of twerps. At their trysts the two revert to sheer teen-agery, '50s style. They find themselves ravished by love lyrics that...
...those who feel spurned by writing in general here: do you feel you deserve a place in the creative writing program? Option III people and other serious writers read voraciously, write every day, spend much time on non-graded work, and suffer the pains of having personal, creative work rejected and criticized--a pain the lowly-graded term paper only approximates. I myself feel excluded from many courses outside my major; Harvard's hopes of liberal education aside, there is a degree of specialization and competency here which necessitates some form of selection. If Schorr's article does nothing else...