Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are no answers, and the final moments of the play suffer somewhat from a lack of resolution. But the crisp, authoritative acting of Norman Rose as Father and the admirable sets by Lester Polakov that meld the eerie with the ordinary, manage to make the play most satisfactorily unsettling...
...show the doctor is stern, selfless, and knowing. He refuses the payment the Mod Squader offers. The doctor can tell what was wrong with the girl (by her symptoms no doubt), and warns, "Tell her not to take any more L.S.D. before she's twenty-one or she'll suffer permanent brain damage...
...poor usually do. Although Negroes make up 11% of the U.S. population, black arrests for murder last yea"r numbered 4,883, compared with 3,200 for whites. The overwhelming majority of victims of violent crime are set upon by members of their own race. That is why Negroes suffer far more from lawlessness of almost every sort than do whites. It explains why 2,000 residents of Watts recently petitioned their council representatives for better police protection. James Jones, Negro owner of a Washington steak house, is not alone in lamenting: "There are a lot of black fools...
This soldier would never have questioned the belief that each Israeli should sense strongly and personally the delicate equilibrium that characterizes life in Israel. Yet he also sincerely felt that his mother should not be required to suffer. He preferred that she be ignorant of the dangers her son faced...
...involved in a quest. A newborn child, the product of an incestuous affair between a backwoods brother and sister, is abandoned by the brother and found by a passing tinker. The sister sets out on a long search for the child, and the brother obsessively pursues her, while both suffer physical and spiritual deprivations...