Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Except for a gent who has had a stroke and two senior citizens with cancer, most of the protagonists in this collection of short stories suffer from Updike's disease. By now readers should be familiar with the symptoms: a wistful feeling of dislocation from the things and relationships of routine life, and chronic elevator stomach, as if the Fall from Grace were a perpetual state of being. Updike's afflicted are invariably middle-aged, middle-class males who, with their wives, ex-wives, mistresses, natural and acquired children, seem to inhabit a blue version of the Lands' End catalog...
...still beautiful, still svelte, still smelled like rasberry tootsie pops and Sprite, still loved me, and didn't want to frighten me in the way that we were frightening Dave. I admired her intelligence. How clever, I thought, to pretend she was somebody that Dave knew, to let Dave suffer insults, let Dave wonder what monstrosity was lurking at the other end of the line to swallow him up in its beasty claws. Dave could fret, Dave could drive, and Dave would step aside when Cappi threw off her Iowa mask and revealed herself in all her glory...
However, the bottom line behind the increase of clubs may lie in a change in student's attitudes, Tsao says. "Students are finding more time to participate because they're making the time, even if sometimes their classes have to suffer...
...proponents argue that the alternative is for the poor to continue to suffer from crime. South Central leaders have fought for years against police- deployment patterns, which are based on a formula that considers property crimes roughly equal to violent crimes against people. This may please Porsche owners in Bel Air, but it does little to console the victims of shootings in Watts. The policy is under review by an outside consultant...
...some fundamental problems in the nation's economy, especially the runaway spending on middle-class entitlement programs (like Social Security), the falling productivity of some industries and the resulting failure to compete in the international markets. Americans have indulged themselves in a certain denial of reality. Increasingly, however, they suffer from what is called a "cognitive dissonance" between the nominal economy and the real economy. In other words, they cannot figure out why so many are losing their jobs while 11 million new jobs have been created since 1981, why the stock market soars to record highs, and thousands...