Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pain. For in most everyday situations, the emotional component is more significant than the underlying sensation. A man getting a penicillin shot knows that "it's for his own good" and accepts the little stab without protest. A four-year-old who cannot grasp this concept will probably scream. The adult will almost certainly make some vocal protest if he is taken unawares, and he may do so at the first touch of the dentist's drill if he has been expecting it to hurt. Both surprise and fearful anticipation are elements in reactions to pain...
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...nice. There are eight girls in these rooms, Patty and Sally, who are nice, Jane and Tina, they're nice, Sandy and Betty and Linda and Mary, also nice. When one of them gets tired of being nice and would like to play a record very loudly and perhaps scream, she can't. It wouldn't be nice...
High on a plateau in the Middle Atlas Mountains stands a rambling complex of rough-hewn rock buildings. These days the buildings are quiet; overhead, crows caw and buzzards scream; grass creeps through chinks in the pavement. Only three soldiers, stationed there to prevent looting, are now camped where a community of Benedictine monks so recently thrived. The monastery of Toumliline, a hopeful experiment of Christian witness in Moslem Morocco, is closed, probably forever...
THERE IS A limit to how much pain a person can take. After a certain point, you must either scream your lungs out or go crazy. Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band pushes both its characters and its audience within inches of that breaking point. It is one of the mammoth achievements in recent American theatrical history...