Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then there is a minor throat-clearing on your right. Your seatmate is about to speak. You are about to suffer a disaster that neither man nor computer can guard against: Instant Intimacy. Relentlessly, he tells you all about his business, his childhood, his sex life. Why do the airlines spend their money eliminating the middle seat? Why don't they put up confessional grilles instead...
...grows larger as it is left behind. Two weeks at the seashore appear, in memory, as a floodlit Oz. The first airplane ride might have been to Venus. The early hours spent with radio, TV and films are the foundation of adult imagination. Yet when children grow up, they suffer some sad amnesia of taste. How else could former kids provide television programs designed to do nothing with time but kill itas if, in Thoreau's phrase, it were possible to kill time without injuring eternity? From the moment it was old enough to earn money, U.S. television...
...problem of money is not specific to orchestras, of course. Educational and artistic institutions of all sorts are the first to suffer during any period of economic instability. But the Philharmonia suffers more than most such organizations because of its newness, because of its lack of endowment, and because of the innovative kind of program it plays. This combination of factors makes it, an exciting orchestra, but also threatens its existence...
...also shown a decisiveness and political pragmatism that his father lacked, though he is willing to suffer for principle: he might have had a Senate nomination two years ago but refused to pledge support for Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policies. This time, Chicago's Mayor Daley and his invaluable political machine came to Stevenson...
...always necessary. Many healthy registrants have skipped a doctor's help and still faked their way to 4-F or 1-Y status.* Some have raised their blood pressure to an unacceptable level by popping amphetamines before reporting for medical examinations. Others have convinced physicians that they suffer from Meniere's syndrome, an inner ear disease that causes severe dizziness and nausea...