Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes." His fictions seldom exceed 10 pages. He calls them "footnotes" to hypothetical books, since he believes in "the certitude that everything has been written." Rediscovery and rearrangement, not "originality," are his objects. In the second Norton lecture Borges assured his audience that the world will never suffer a shortage of metaphors, even though they can all be classified in some ancient, fundamental pattern. As with a kaleidoscope, a limited number of basic elements has an almost infinite number of combinations...
...Harvard is the Crimson. There are, of course, literary magazines, humorous magazines, magazines for the social sciences, drama reviews, semi-professional magazines, and assorted newsletters. Some of these publications, both good and bad ones, are deliberately aimed at limited audiences. The ones which aspire to universality, however, tend to suffer from inconsistent writing, unimaginative editing, or lack of funds. A daily newspaper with these shortcomings will probably still be scanned. But a college magazine can't get away with mediocrity...
...class of each student, and the social class of his fellow students. Crippled by low parent education and lack of stimulus, students of low socio-economic background must fight extra hard to overcome home influences. But progress becomes almost impossible when fellow-students come from the same backgrounds, and suffer the same handicaps. Lacking examples of ambition or achievement, the class gels into a self-retarding mass...
...meet this week to discuss voluntary wage restraints, essential to ensure that a new round of wage and price in creases does not quickly nullify the gains of the devaluation. But the feeling abroad was that Wilson had devalued as a purely domestic political move, being unwilling to suffer the political consequences of imposing the strict economic reforms that the world banking community is convinced Britain needs...
...priests is usually limited to their seminary courses, which are dominated by theology and philosophy-not exactly an ideal preparation for a business career. Some are so inexperienced in the ways of the world that they show up for job interviews wearing sports shirts. A few are alcoholics. Many suffer from psychological problems-ranging from what they dub a "Judas complex" (a fear that they have betrayed Christ) to sexual hang-ups over celibacy† to lack of confidence. As a result, some ex-priests end up in jobs far below their intellectual capacities. Several former clerics now drive taxis...