Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when homosexuals are more visible and assertive than ever-in films and plays that explicitly depict their private lives and in public organizations that militate for their civil rights. Still, the report notes, parents who find out that their child is a homosexual or a lesbian almost inevitably suffer, fearing that they are somehow guilty of a tragic failure...
Helpful as these informal contacts have been, they suffer from the disability of being largely ad hoc, and they ordinarily represent the result of student rather than faculty initiative. We believe that there is a strong case to be made for the exercise of greater departmental initiative in establishing regularized machinery for consulting with undergraduate concentrators. From the student point of view, such arrangements have the advantage of providing a recognized channel through which grievances can be ventilated, criticisms expressed, and proposals for change discussed with the Faculty. From the departmental point of view, the existence of such machinery...
...Does one take up the banner of righteousness and telling the real world where to get off, go out to join the pariahs? Can I resist the war and suffer the jails? Is one morally worse or better for one or the other? And if I leave the land of the brave what will I do if I want to come back? Can I go away forever...
...What of those who do not suffer my anxieties because they were never offered the chance? How can I explain to them what my choice will be? In old times they paid those who took the place of someone else. But now the rich get off for free...
...alert black America that the word now is to be cool and kill an eve for an eye thus letting white America know that it can no longer wantonly murder blacks without retribution. He hopes that it will also head off massive unorganized ghetto revolts in which only blacks suffer. But Browning's hopes crumple like a dynamited bridge, as the policeman's death touches off an uncontrollable swirl of events...