Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exotic explorers like Varese. Of course, a composer can scramble two, or three, or ten of these together and arrive at something unrecognizable enough to prompt the conscientious newspaper reviewer to style him "a distinctly original voice." This is not a satisfactory solution for many composers, who frequently suffer bewilderment amid rapidly changing styles...
...ideas for covering the foundations, Edith finds it necessary to visit supermarkets, watch women in bargain basements and cafeteria lines. "To look lovely," says Designer Head, who has been married 18 years, "a woman will suffer. She'll wear a waist cincher that squeezes her, boned bras that dig her, heels that tilt her to the sensitive balls of her feet." But it is all worth it because "clothes have to do with happiness, and can actually give a woman personality. A woman in a bathtub has little personality; she's just a woman without clothes...
...Granik were also praised by Garrison. "Our chief weakness has been lack of depth," he added, whereas "many of the schools we face recruit from large ROTC units." Garrison also pointed to the team's lack of a coach. "Most of the teams we face have coaches, and we suffer from not having the advice and moral support a coach could give...
...Quixote the portrait of a Christian saint? W. H. Auden argues that it is, that Don Quixote sees his mission as "the World-that which needs my existence to save it at whatever cost to myself. He comes into collision with the real world but insists upon continuing to suffer [and] never despairs." When readers first meet Don Quixote, continues Auden, "he is (a) poor (b) not a knight, (c) 50, (d) has nothing to do except hunt and read romances about Knight-Errantry . . . Suddenly he goes mad, i.e., he sets out to become what he admires . . . Religiously...
...sent the Afrikaans word apartheid ricocheting around the world; following a stroke; in Stellenbosch, Union of South Africa. Among Malan's ambitions were the preservation of Africa for the Afrikaners and the creation of a "New Jerusalem"; i.e., a Boer republic, where "the sacred Boer race" would not suffer "pollution" by the black man. Among his achievements was a clause added to the national constitution: "The People of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...