Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pistol-Packin' Mama. In the death scene, Stratas shed real tears and made her audience suffer with her as the strings surged upward to a great chord, punctured by Violetta's desperate cry: "Ah! gran' Dio! Morir si giovine [Ah, great God! To die so young]." After the performance, Teresa, smothered in flowers, wearing a green Florentine velvet gown, was seized by a hollow cough. "You see, Violetta is contagious," she said...
...rocky road back to this Garden of Eden, a lot of people are bound to suffer for a while. But by gradually raising educational levels, retraining those displaced by automation, and seeing to it that displaced workers retain their buying power, society will somehow gradually manage to support the change. So far, the installation of computers in some industries has required so many new skills that the total unemployment level has hardly changed. In many cases, the computer has not meant an overall loss of jobs so much as a change in the type of jobs done. Says Sir Leon...
...Overcoat. In Nikolai Gogol's short story, as in this brief and virtually flawless film from Russia, Akaky Akakievich is a hunched, squinty-eyed penpusher, ridiculed at his office, who all winter long must suffer the cold winds of St. Petersburg whipping through his gauze thin overcoat. Compelled to buy a new one at painful cost, he talks to it, sleeps with it, defends it against a threatening moth. Next day, miraculously, Akaky Akakievich and his overcoat create a sen sation at work. His former tormentors are now backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party...
...presidential campaign headed the Citizens for Johnson and Humphrey organization. But Cook decided that he did not want to become Treasury Secretary; he had already spent 16 years in public service, and he figured that was enough. There were other explanations for his reluctance: his pen sion would suffer; Treasury's top job pays only $35,000 a year compared with Cook's present salary of $135,000; his wife does not like Washington...
...Pathology Institute in Essen, Germany, brought the two together. He was seeking an explanation of the fact that many women who have had surgery for cancer of the breast get along well for years on regular doses of the male hormone testosterone, while others on the same treatment soon suffer fatal recurrences of their cancer. Current theories to explain this phenomenon did not satisfy Dr. Hienz, or Dr. P. N. Ehlers of Heidelberg...