Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in the more clear-cut case when the ineligible athlete is on the winning team--when only his team is the one to suffer the consequences of his ineligibility--the Ivies must still rely on the NCAA for interpretation...
...Boston Marathon. Crowds are sparse and extremely arrogant. They insult skinny participant, which is quite a full-time job since most marathoners are disturbingly skinny. They also scream for the men to run faster, not because they want them to do well, but because they want the runners to suffer...
Newspaper editors normally do not suffer criticism-or critics-gladly. They tend to get even unhappier when the criticism comes from members of their own staffs. Nevertheless, a group of Chicago reporters and photographers have been publicly lambasting their own papers ever since the 1968 Democratic Convention-and getting away with...
...people who suffer because of inadequate distribution of medical care, the poor and the black have always suffered the most. Before the government invented its patchwork medical insurance plans, the poor simply couldn't pay for decent care. And now, even with the advent of Medicare and Medicaid, coverage is usually not complete enough to meet basic medical needs...
...unlikely that Vian's novels will become particularly popular in this country: they're very French, and they suffer in translation. But Mood Indigo has a magic no heavy-handed translator can counteract. It's effective on so many levels that reading it is more than a pleasant pastime--it's like an initiation into Vian's way of responding to reality. And a very powerful one too: chances are that when you read your second Vian novel, it will be like coming home...