Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 it--as 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...
...Harvard must unfairly wallow in the disrespect afforded it by the national media, and Feaster must suffer because she chose to get a top-quality education while playing basketball...
...roommates' common lack of TV background did not influence their decision to room together, but growing up without TV does affect the lives, liberties and happinesses of those who have to endure the experience. Bertozzi expresses a deep-seated bitterness toward her little sister, who did not suffer the same restrictions she and her older siblings did. "I think it often happens that parents just give up with the youngest child," Bertozzi huffs. "The rest of the family would be at the dinner table, and she would be sitting in front of the TV, eating Lucky Charms! I couldn...
...point where declaring one's non-belief is a bit like admitting to eating babies. This is why the vast majority of atheists and agnostics, who may outnumber all other non-Christian Americans put together, are secretive about their non-belief. Those who are public about their convictions often suffer...
...members of the University and the institution as a whole benefit when its name is well used, and suffer when it is ill used," states the new policy...