Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exists. Possibly a revival of English 35 is the solution. We do not seek to refute the literary significance of the Bible; no intelligent person would do this. However, in answer to the hostile tone of your editorial, we submit that a course on Scottish Border Ballads should not suffer a literary death at the hands of the Old Testament. Michael E. Hager '60 Philip E. Burnham...
...playwrights have long known, there are few more dramatic situations than a court trial. But TV cameras are not allowed in courtrooms, and dramatized trial scenes often suffer from their own contrived complexity. Last week a program that captures much of the unrehearsed spontaneity and unpredictability of a real trial was the year's biggest success in afternoon television...
Pediatrician Schneck is less sure of what happens long after recovery. No study has been made, for example, of whether infant addicts suffer organic brain damage in their first weeks. Most are placed for adoption, and Dr. Schneck questions whether they are a good risk: "Could the mother's emotional instability which led her to resort to narcotics, foreshadow the neuro-hereditary pattern of her offspring? Or is the infants' ultimate emotional development primarily one of environment?" The problem's social and genetic aspects, concludes Dr. Schneck, need a lot more study...
...pacifists and blue arm-band wearers suffer from a serious confusion of values and goals. War is, of course, both morally and politically undesirable, and so is the arms race. But war is not, as Captain Bigelow '29 of the Golden Rule stated, "morally impossible...
...classic one over "the bewildering mesh of God." over why the innocent must suffer with the guilty, how leaders must move forward stricken with guilt. It is a searching enough theme to build a play around, though scarcely a key theme for a play about Moses. But the real trouble is that Fry offers so little to build with-neither real dramatic bricks nor real psychological stones, only philosophic shards and ethical bits of glass. A story that, told as vivid theater, might blaze with Biblical fire, seems quite unwarmed. A story that, recounted as high drama, might seem grandly...