Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cracking is lactase. Nature intended babies to live on milk, and lactase deficiency is fortunately a rarity in the newborn, but the incidence increases with advancing age. According to Georgetown University's Dr. Stuart H. Danovitch, writing in GP, as much as 10% of the adult population may suffer from lack of lactase. Colorado...
Reading the Advocate Anthology is like re-reading your freshman Gen Ed papers three years later; it simply embarrasses you. The best work is outrageously derivative; you suffer for Thomas Huxley or H.L. Mencken or Henry Miller or whoever was being imitated. The worst causes real anguish; only Harvard undergraduates could write so much oddly-arranged verse with obscure Latin titles or such dogged, tedious, unknowingly funny short stories...
...chamber of deliberate counsel, second thoughts and extended debate, a guardian against rashness on the part either of the popularly elected lower House or of the President. The Senate has had its greater and its lesser days-and at any given time its current members usually suffer by comparison with the "giants" of a nostalgically remembered past. It has, in fact, changed and renewed itself often, reflecting the facts of American history and politics from the smallest matters of patronage to the highest questions of principle...
...trust in the goodness of human nature. J. P. Donleavy's conte philosophique demonstrates that the things a man does not believe in can be as crippling as false faith. This is the opposite of Candide's optimism-despair. Donleavy's hero, Samuel S, does not suffer persecution by savages; his enemy is himself; he believes nothing...
...second assumption is that the Houses are so much alike that no one will suffer from living in one and not another. This is a reasonable idea, since any House is large and diverse enough to contain something for everyone's tastes. Chalmers believes that any student can be content in any House if he lives in it for a few months, even a House he might not have considered if he were forced to rank his first three choices. But it is also true that there are significant differences among the Houses, even if the differences are only reflections...