Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally Levron seems to suffer from biographer's lens, a distorting disability that makes the writer's subject loom through history at elephant size while other personages appear as ants. Describing the Seven Years' War, in which Austria and France were eventu ally drubbed by England and Prussia, Levron somehow creates the impression that Mme. de Pompadour was fighting the war singlehanded-writing almost daily letters to generals on all fronts, conniving with the Viennese court, desperately trying to put a little pluck into her King and his flagging ministers, many of whom, Levron admits...
...being. This assumes to show no sensitivity to criticism. In an eight-line paragraph his most recent book, Morality and Beyond, summarily dismisses objections raised by analytical philosophy, "pure" pragmatism, "pure" existentialism (pure is not defined in either case) and value theories in psychology. Tillich thinks they all suffer from the demoniac malaise of our times, "self-sufficient finitude," or the "denial of the immanence of the infinite (God) in the finite...
Galbraith emphasized the importance of American economic aid to India. He said the U.S. position is South Asia is their support is almost entirely urban, and they suffer from internal splits. They have "none of the peaceful internal homogeneity of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts--or of the Republican Party nationally," he said...
...Thanksgiving message President Johnson made a great point of it, urged U.S. citizens "to close down the poison springs of hatred and intolerance and fanaticism." Texas' Governor John Connally, still in bed, said: "I think we all must suffer for a lack of tolerance, lack of understanding, the passion, the prejudice, the hate and the bigotry which permeates the whole society in which we live and which manifested itself here on Friday...
...found Barshai's strings "a core of cast iron overlaid with silver." Later, a three-night stand at Carnegie Hall was sold out-largely because Russia's great father and son violinists, David and Igor Oistrakh, appeared on the program. But Barshai's group did not suffer in comparison...