Word: pains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Pogrund discusses the current turmoil, his emotions as a South Africa native and his insights as an obviously pragmatic, tough-minded journalist shift back and forth, showing on one hand pain and pessimism and on the other cold condemnation of the cynical pursuit of self-interest among parties on both sides. He sees those selfish pursuits in the Vorster government and among its economic partners abroad, and also among black leaders in the surrounding "front-line" countries who, he suspects, even if black majority rule arrives in Rhodesia, will continue to bend to South African clout...
Though normally a wooden campaigner who looks somewhat like an Episcopal rector (which he is), Danforth now crisscrosses the state in a van and tells voters that he wants to be a "pain in the neck" in Washington. He lost a narrow Senate race in 1970, but he is spending heavily against his opponent, ex-Governor Warren E. Hearnes, who is severely tarnished by allegations of scandal in his past administration...
...strict than Hemingway's, flunks in prose style. Yet she is an indispensable witness. Nobody else could record that even when things were at their best during the writing of The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway confessed: "I can cheer up everybody except me." She reveals his pain together with her own-which was sharpened by the knowledge that she could not help. Even so, Mrs. Hemingway has also written a decisive chapter in the history of women who do time as artists' handmaidens As usual, her husband had the taut phrase for it: "You hired...
...months and is now No. 2 on TIME'S bestseller list. A balding, hitherto little-known professor at St. John's University in New York, Dyer, 36, says he practices what he preaches about emotional control. When he underwent oral surgery without an anesthetic, he felt no pain. He chose to feel pleasure by fantasizing erotic images and recalling positive things in his life...
...says, "survived in the most terrible circumstances. Their secret was learning to appreciate the small things that made up their daily existence - a tiny crust of bread, sunrise from a cell window." In sum, the most salable self-help philosophy for the disillusioned '70s seems to be: Minimize pain, concentrate on self, and try to find joy even in horrible circumstances...