Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...master is an arrogant and atrabilious young bourgeois who hammers moodily on a grand piano and one day is stricken blind. Bitter in his affliction, he scorns her love. "Dare I aspire," he sneers, "to marry the housemaid?" Hurt to the heart, she leaves, and he is left to suffer at life's hands what she has suffered at his, to take the fall that pride traditionally portends...
...failure to understand the essence of the Greek tragedies from which he borrowed. The Greek hero was a man trying to be god and failing, the tragedy of overweening pride. O'Neill's heroes indict god for failing to be god, or even to be; they suffer the pathos of grievance at man's inscrutable lot. By superimposing the events of the Greeks on the attitudes of moderns, O'Neill gives playgoers the sometimes heartrending spectacle of a man undone by numbing catastrophes, but never the elevating grandeur of a man so towering that...
...Long Absence. A man who does not know who he is and a woman who thinks he is her husband suffer their strange dilemma in a strange but affecting French film, thoughtfully directed by Henri Colpi...
...they would know even less about it than they do. But an accident in a brain artery is one of the most dramatic and disabling illnesses that can befall a man. And in the U.S., it is one of the most common. Each year, a million or more Americans suffer strokes and other forms of brain damage, with 200,000 deaths resulting. From the study and treatment of stroke victims, researchers are learning the implications of using half a brain, and what can be done when that half is damaged...
...Angeles' sprawling old Ambassador. "We're building new facilities more rapidly than either travel or the population is increasing." Often builders of the new hotels agree that there are indeed too many rooms, but argue that it is the old and the inadequate that will suffer, not they. They count on air conditioning, room refrigerators, coffeemakers and other new amenities to draw crowds, and hope that cramped space, hasty building and other economies won't be held against them...