Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finds the Green Evil everywhere, and suggests it is becoming more prevalent as examinations, from college boards to corporate psychological tests, determine who is up and who is down in life. Writers and actors are notoriously liable to envy and "ambitious clergymen, service officers and shop stewards appear to suffer most." But perhaps the most obnoxious form of the sin today is Western Europe's pervasive anti-Americanism. "There are grievances against America which deserve consideration from everyone," says Wilson. "But anti-Americanism is quite another thing; it is an impotent envy which does nothing but disgrace the speaker...
Even a graceful loser must endure the inevitable round of post-mortems conducted by second-guessers who think they know why he lost or how he might have won. Last week it was Loser Dick Nixon's lot to suffer a post-mortem that, for pure tastelessness, rivaled Nixon's own graceless gibe at the press...
...argument that freshmen would be deprived of their Union and would therefore suffer is not convincing. Freshmen would still have the main floor and the cavernous dining hall exclusively to themselves, in addition to their common rooms in the Yard. And the Yardlings might even enjoy and profit from meeting upperclassmen...
...today is no answer either. Just as there are many to whom meals without women are dismal affairs, so too there are others who would decry the end of insulation from the female. At present, the misogynists have their way, but under the plan suggested here, neither side would suffer unduly. For those who wish it, girls will be there; for the rest, the dining halls are surely large enough to provide tables and escape. The man who feels unsafe even when women are sitting at some distance from him at a different table, that...
...fortunately Adrienne Harris as the Mummy who finally exposes him has the power to do it. She very smoothly overcomes the difficulties of playing a parrot-like creature who has lived in a closet for decades. She emerges to plead for another way of dealing with sin: repent and suffer for one's own rather than punishing it in others...