Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This Saturday the women's fencing team faces Dartmouth and the Big Green may suffer the consequences of the anger pent up inside the Crimson after last night's close victory. Indeed Lowry predicted Harvard "is gonna kill Dartmouth this weekend. Everybody...
...paid off with one of the steadiest records of growth in Western religion. Yet according to the Witnesses' new Yearbook, the number of active members in the U.S. dropped by 2.6% (to 530,374) for 1977, the first decrease since World War II. Worldwide, the Witnesses, who often suffer persecution overseas, declined by 1%. Besides that, the number of baptisms of new U.S. converts has dropped 65% over two years...
Sociologists and their journalistic popularizers have been having at the factory hands for some time now. Everyone knows by now that they suffer intense feelings of on-the-job anomie and alienation that show themselves in absenteeism, alcoholism and other unpleasantries. We have heard that they feel simultaneously exploited (by both their employers and their unions) and ignored (by the rest of society). But such matters are not much discussed in movies. Paul Schrader, previously best known as the writer of Taxi Driver, which dealt with another sort of disfranchisement, deserves high marks for originality as prime mover, director...
...fresh reminders of the weather's power over human life and events in the form of horrifying tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. These leave behind forgettable statistics and unforgettable images of devastated towns and battered humanity that can only humble people in the face of such wrath. Farmers often suffer the most, from the drought and plagues of biblical times to the hailstorms or quick freezes that even today can wipe out whole crops in minutes. Last week's icy assault on the Midwest, for all its ferocity and cost, is merely another reminder of the in escapable vulnerability...
...South Africa's black majority, apartheid is a system of laws imposed arbitrarily by whites, and it is designed to crush blacks in spirit as well as to exploit their labor. In the end, the play suggests, apartheid manages to make the people who suffer under it as brutal as the laws themselves; by making every normal human need criminal, apartheid has created its own criminals...