Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem to find it. Only on rare occasions, with other ordinary soldiers, does Svejk let his real opinions show, and even on these rare occasions he usually allows himself not openness but sarcasm--long accounts of how overjoyed he'll be if only he's allowed to suffer for the Emperor, like Hasek's description of a patriotically religious painting of a dying soldier with his leg torn off, smiling blissfully, as though they were bringing him an ice cream...
...final report of the Stendahl Committee has not been published. If it makes recommendations substantially similar to those in the preliminary report, religious life in the University will suffer. It is the particular duty of the President of the University, or failing that, the Overseers, to see that this does not happen. The United Ministry plan offers an excellent alternative. To refuse to incorporate their ideas would be to pursue a highly suspect concept of pluralism...
...vast reserves off the Atlantic coast which the Federal Government should lease now. not next year. If the Northeastern states try to block such efforts, then I say let them freeze in the dark. I see no reason why Texas, Louisiana or any other state should be forced to suffer shortages by sharing with those who have plenty but refuse to let it be developed...
...more apparent still in a concrete, economic sense. There is no doubt that Britain is in the middle of yet another economic crisis, but this time the Government has been holding down wages by statutory control, while prices have gotten out of hand. Poor people are beginning to suffer a decline in their standard of living, but taxation of the rich has not increased and has, in some cases, decreased. The totally unnecessary impostion of the three-day work week has hit manual and semi-skilled workers with unemployment, and has cut the pay of those who have retained jobs...
...larger question, though, is whether his work might suffer now that he has been cut off from his native language. Solzhenitsyn certainly is aware of the difficulty: a character in The First Circle refers to exile in the West as "spiritual castration." Most experts, though, believe that he will survive as a creative force, even though he will have lost his unique platform in Russia...