Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bind is simultaneously emphasized and intensified social disadvantages which scientists suffer. Theories of America make better dinner talk than theories of protein structure. While scientific students are confronted by revealed fact in their courses graduate can often say new and significant things about historical problem...
Finding evidence of talent in Sing Muse, New York Times critic Howard Taubman warned that scholars and undergraduates are likely to suffer from cuteness and/or esotoricism in writing or popular forums...
...rest of Miss Dawson's characters suffer in comparison with her heroine, but they are by no means inadequate. Rarely does one suspect them of existing only to focus Josephine's speculations about the world. Her lover, Alasdair Faber, is considerably more probable than his name implies; his combination of worldly sophistication and angry disenchantment reveals itself clearly in the remarks he addresses to Josephine...
...youth. He prescribed music for Karl, then philosophy. But Karl was no genius and joined the army instead. Beethoven was full of advice. In letter after letter, he upbraided the boy: "What distresses me most of all is the thought of the consequences which you will suffer as a result of your behaviour. No one will believe or trust you who has heard what has happened and how you have mortally ruined me." Taking all this to heart, Karl tried to commit suicide in 1826. Beethoven never got over the shock. A year later he died...
...meant that Mao was accepting responsibility for the failure of the communes; it was merely the first step in the classic Communist ploy of disengagement from catastrophe. Since it was now obvious that the planners had been right and the sloganeers wrong, reason would suggest that the sloganeers should suffer. But the Communist solution was to purge the most outspoken of the planners; then the party could majestically change course. Last April Li Fu-chun thundered: "Not merely has agriculture been neglected to promote heavy industry, but there has also been a waste of men, money and materials. There...