Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three Complaints. Altman charges that homosexuals suffer from three things: persecution, discrimination and, paradoxically, tolerance. By persecution, he means police harassment in homosexual bars and meeting places. He points out that in 1970 Connecticut's Commissioner of Motor Vehicles denied a license to a man because "his homosexuality makes him an improper person to hold an operator's license." As another example of discrimination, he cites the prejudice against hiring homosexuals. "Try telling your boss you cannot move to a new job because of your lover"-the only term homosexuals have for the heterosexual equivalent of wife...
Four consecutive losses--three of them to Ivy squads--have dropped the Crimson to third place in the Division I standings, and second behind Cornell in the Ivy. It is unlikely, unless Cornell and Boston University suffer complete collapses within the next week and a half, that Harvard will move higher...
...immediate economic effects of urbanization are somewhat more mixed. Those who were well-off in the countryside often suffer serious losses in the move to the city. The rural poor, on the other hand, may well find life in the city more attractive and comfortable than their previous existence in the countryside. The urban slum, which seems so horrible to middle-class Americans, often becomes for the poor peasant a gateway to a new and better way of life. For some poor migrants, the wartime urban boom has made possible incomes five times those which they had in the countryside...
...will be running in the 600 and 1000 yard runs, and the two-mile relay. Like many of his teammates. Clayton was plagued with bad luck and illness early in the season. In the 600, he will have to go it virtually alone as Nick Leone continues to suffer at the sidelines with an ankle injury...
...main characters also suffer from this cardboard figure effect. Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman are extremely good in the title roles, but one doesn't believe they were quite as shallow and naive as their lines indicate. One also wishes that the screenwriter had not put so many "Nicky" and "Sunny" references in the script; even though Nicholas II was a weak monarch not everyone could have had the audacity to call the Tsar of all the Russians "Nicky." Even Haldeman, Kissinger and Mitchell have admitted that they always call Nixon "Mr. President," never "Dick...