Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enslavement, metaphysical or historical, has only one answer--rebellion. And Camus is not "willing to keep silent about one reign of terror in order the better to combat another one". "The world I live in," he explains, "is loathsome to me. But I feel one with the men who suffer in it." Camus began, politically and philosophically, where his generation stopped: at despair. But in spite of and in a way because of despair, he continued to rebel against Fascism, Communism, blind faith, resignation, and the universe itself--because each of them increases instead of diminishing his despair. Against Marcel...
...Glaucoma can be detected cheaply and painlessly in a few seconds, but more than 500,000 Americans have the disease in an early and unrecognized form; all will suffer severe loss of vision, and each year about 4,500 are blinded...
...also no reason to do so. The clause is a source of federal intervention--which is almost indispensable to many states. Especially in the South school improvements with state funds often mean unnecessary tightening of belts on other issues. Thus, both the schools and, say, highway construction must suffer. If Congress knocks out the ten per cent clause it will be hindering rather than helping the future of state control over educational policy...
...also lived in England for a long time, but that doesn't mean I became an Englishman!" In fact he was all for keeping the cold war out of Africa. "I recall an old Swahili proverb," said Kenyatta. " 'When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.' If East and West fight over Africa, only the Africans will suffer...
...mounting pressures seem only to stiffen Verwoerd. "We regard the present position as very serious," he proclaimed. "We must be willing to suffer for our nation." Why, he said wonderingly, "South Africa has done more for the natives than any other country in Africa...