Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agreed that poor and working people suffer disproportionately from food price increases. Agreed that Harvard is on the explotive side of that disproportion. Agreed that eating several meatless meals a week is not so great a sacrifice. It requires less effort than training to build elementary water systems in Africa, as one student I know is doing, or working in one's home community over a long haul to build a class conscious, worker-led movement, to use another acquaintance as an example. That doesn't mean that every smaller or less politically conscious commitment...
...that South Africa itself accept majority (meaning black) rule in South West Africa (Namibia), the U.N. territory South Africa has run since 1920. Kaunda wants aid and more trade with South Africa, and wants South African grain not only for Zambia but for other Central African states that currently suffer from a serious food shortage...
...taking a walk...Strauss has spoken. We will say this to Strauss--that union labor will no longer suffer sophisticated denial and discrimination in the high councils of the Democratic party. We would remind Mr. Strauss that union labor is an indispensible element of the coalition to which he will turn...
...Federal Reserve has again stoked up the flow of money into the economy, Chairman Burns has not abandoned his long-term goal of holding the increase to a moderate 5% to 6% a year. The Administration, despite hot political criticism, is convinced that it must let the economy suffer along until there are some signs more convincing than those now apparent of a letup in inflation...
...could count on the rest of us catching grief. To dramatize such things, Mr. Tryon scheduled a hurricane, a flood and the Dutch elm disease. Not to mention yearly blizzards of cliches. But the wisdom that Lady revealed to Woody strikes some people as priceless. "Man is made to suffer, they say," she once opined. On another of many "memorable" occasions, she tossed off one of her best remarks: "People are people wherever you go." No, they don't make 'em like Lady any more...