Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answering them. If American universities are really teaching their students to believe that membership in the Communist party must imply "a loss of independence of mind, and adherence to a rigid, anti-American ideology," then American universities themselves are being close-minded and rigid. Every student's education must suffer, even if just a little, by the injection of such non-truths into the curriculum...
Senator Fulbright is being carefully isolated, and he may soon suffer a fate that not too many years ago befell a man who resembles him in many ways, Adlai Stevenson. No man of prominence in America represents the Stevenson tradition more faithfully than Senator Fulbright. He speaks out infrequently, and when he does, it appears to pain him greatly. He chooses his phrases carefully, balancing and moderating his assertions as would a conscientious logician. A politician in name only, he seems more the lonely statesman, agonizing over his place in history...
...organization man, typified by Daisy's slick boyfriend. These humorous tidbits bear no relation to the main line of the play, and one suspects that bringing in Mort Sahl for a few ten minute interludes would be far more effective. The songs which occur during these offshots suffer also from dramatic anemia...
...strongly overstimulated the boy, and his father, a sober Frankfurt lawyer, gave little shape to his education. At seven, Goethe was proficient in six languages: German, English, French, Italian, Greek, Latin. At 16 he had a serious nervous breakdown. In desperation he began to write -"to say what I suffer." Saved by art, he romantically vowed "to convert my entire life into a work...
...explicit, but it doesn't hurt to be falsely accused of rape, apparently. It is some time, though, before Colin, a London schoolteacher who has made it with only two girls in as many years--"I started late," he insists--hits upon this expedient. And until then he must suffer Tolen, who is rooming in his house. Blandly arrogant and condescending, Tolen makes his women stand in line, restricts them to just one word in his guest book, and bestows souvenir medallions. He observes of one curvaceous creature: "That last one has very nice ear lobes...