Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facility, which will provide year-round courts for both the varsity and students, and the Stadium received a new turf. Nothing was done about seating in the Stadium, however, and a CRIMSON reports noted that heavy rains before the Penn football game caused him and his date Susan to suffer through the contest with freezing hands and "wet bottoms...
Because children of different age groups suffer different sorts of psychological problems about nuclear warfare, their parents must be prepared to use different methods to allay their fears, argues the pamphlet's author. Psychologist Sibylle Escalona of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. But one problem is common to all parents and all children: nuclear war hazards are particularly difficult to discuss because parents know so little about them. And the one thing that all youngsters want, from kindergarten through adolescence, is certainty...
...Long Absence. A man who doesn't 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...
Hysterics, when Freud (Montgomery Clift) begins to study them, are scorned by neurologists as silly women who act up to get attention, suffer at worst from a "wandering womb." Freud doubts the diagnosis, suggests that hysteria proves the existence of unconscious thoughts. Most of his colleagues laugh in his face, but Dr. Josef Breuer (Larry Parks) describes a hysteric named Cecily (Susannah York) who relieved a symptom simply by talking about what caused it. Freud takes over the case. And so begins a vastly exciting drama of detection, in which the audience simultaneously sees a lurid mystery unfold...
...Innocent. In medieval France, painters were so ignorant of what a child was that they had no idea how to paint him. A 12th century miniature depicting the New Testament scene in which Jesus says, "Suffer little children ... to come unto me," shows Jesus surrounded by eight small men; newborn infants were commonly painted with the musculature of grownups, their age indicated only by their size. The reason, says Scholar Aries, is that during the Middle Ages, and for a long time afterward among the lower classes, children were thrown into the adult world...