Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goldmark remarked that next summer's project Tanganyika, which has already enlisted 16 volunteers, will not suffer much from the decision. A private course in Swahili will be arranged again this year, as it was last, with funds collected for the project. Even so, "it's a pretty crucial question - the scope of a liberal education...
...permitted to place deponent's name below that of Charlton Heston, then it will appear that deponent's status is considered to be inferior to that of Charlton Heston ... It is impossible to determine or even to estimate the extent of the damages which the plaintiff will suffer...
...will suffer brain fag identifying the Michaelson family. There is Daddy (Art Carney), a Blunt Ox with a heart as big as his wallet ("I got in plastics early"). There is Mom (Phyllis Thaxter), a sugar-coated Sphinx full of smiling inner wisdom. There is Daughter Mollie (Elizabeth Ashley), a cute little Bunny hopping from her West Coast home to an Eastern college, and into the sights of the great white hunters from Harvard, Princeton and Yale...
...brief glances into their lives remain in the scribbled pages of their diaries and journals. These diaries are not only added evidence of North Vietnamese intervention in the South, but a full reading of them reveals the nature of the enemy. The guerrillas are far from being supermen; they suffer cold, hunger and other hardships. But they are fiercely indoctrinated, to the point of thinking and writing in Communist jargon, and in their idealism, however misguided, lies much of their strength-a strength the U.S. must understand in order to fight...
...some of Wilson's longer poems, one seems to be reading the pompous Latin hexameters of a precocious college class poet, translated by himself much later into would-be lively English. Thus the verse manages to suffer simultaneously from "if youth but knew" and "if age but could." Other poems become wearying concatenations of assonances and alliterations in esoteric meters. At best, Wilson achieves a kind of chirky colloquialism. A characteristic sample...