Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prophets of gloom can still be found under various rocks and bridges around the Square, predicting a Penn upset. Even the coaches are worried, but football coaches are a singularly paranoic breed. They claim that since the Crimson looked so good against Dartmouth, it could suffer a severe letdown against Penn as it looks forward to the Princeton game Nov.9...
Such spiritual experiences range from heavenly to hideous: a number of subjects suffer through agonizing intimations of hell rather than of paradise. Most instant mystics feel that they have been "reborn," and have suddenly been given the key to existence, although their intuition usually appears in the form of an incommunicable platitude, such as "oneness is all." California Prison Psychologist Wilson Van Dusen, for example, imagined himself in a black void in which "God was walking on me and I cried for joy. My own voice seemed to speak of his coming, but I didn't believe it. Suddenly...
...graduate students regard their teaching simply as an opportunity to gain experience, the undergraduates will be little more than guinea pigs. If a professor abandons his course to untrained section men, the student will suffer much more than he would if he fell asleep in Lowell Lecture Hall. As Professor Perkins observed, "Too much delegation of responsibility to inexperienced people could bring bad results...
...somehow, President Diem and his relatives were neatly deposed, military operations would not suffer and might well improve under a new government. More able officers might replace some of the politically appointed generals. Without Diem's objections to casualties and his fears of successful officers, the war might be more purposefully prosecuted...
...contracts have become an important part of the political pork barrel. "Legislators are caught in a serious political-economic squeeze. More than 90% of the space budget goes to nongovernment contractors, many of them in states and congressional districts so dependent on space contracts that their entire economies would suffer if these contracts were canceled or deferred...