Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychological impact of busing is more likely to be negative rather than positive. The sudden change to a more demanding, competitive environment with higher academic standards lowers academic motivation and self-esteem. This is especially true when the receiving community is hostile to busing. The studies indicate black students suffer substantial psychological damage when busing is accompanied by ridicule, violence and boycotts...
...such group argues that the people now starving have bred like rabbits and that they, regrettably, must suffer for their lack of foresight and self-discipline. The sight of the over-burdened earth moves these "crisis environmentalists" to advocate tough policies: positive and negative monetary incentives, rationing of children, sterilizing materials in the water supplies and compulsory abortion. Acknowledging that coercion diminishes freedom and is especially hard on the poor, these crisis environmentalists admit that the metaphor of an overcrowded lifeboat is a harsh one, requiring harsh ethics, but that it is "the basic metaphor within which we must work...
...spawned, is frustrating at best. His vision of the independent scholar, committed to a self-defined notion of excellence, is a paper-thin one. The ability of the scholar to remain aloof from the rest of society is ultimately dependent on the good will of those who obligingly suffer the scholar's peculiar ways. The rules of American society allow the academic elite its measure of independence because scholars have generally aligned with the political and economic elite. Lipset himself points out that universities serve "the bodies politic" by providing them with "new basic discoveries that help keep their national...
...this, friends and aides are convinced that Kennedy does not want the nomination, at least not next year. Wife Joan, 38, continues to suffer from emotional problems. Teddy Jr., 13, has adjusted manfully to the amputation of his lower right leg in 1973 to arrest bone cancer; he continues to undergo treatment. Kennedy also must go on serving as surrogate father to Ethel Kennedy's eleven children. Above all, if Teddy were a candidate, the many unanswered questions about Chappaquiddick would be reopened. But if he were nominated at the last minute, there would be much less time...
...matter how extreme, when you feel like it, no matter how late the hour. "I don't really care about my life," says Bacon. "I've led a very hypnotic and curious one - being homosexual I have lived with the most marvelously disastrous people. Of course one suffers. You like somebody and you suffer from it. But that's how life is." Born the son of a horse trainer in Ireland, raised in a thick atmosphere of decayed gentility and Sinn Fein violence, flung out of home at 16 for making love to the grooms, drifting into...