Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cooke said that the larger universities would suffer most from the draft. "Purdue has 300 teaching assistants in chemistry alone. The draft would decimate their program. Smaller schools might get by, but larger ones like Cornell and Purdue will be seriously handicapped if they cannot get deferments for their teaching assistants," he said...
...distributed by the Council on Community Affairs, which Brewster also created Tuesday night. Tracy Barnes, director of the Yale-staffed Council, stressed that it will not dictate policy. "We feel very strongly that these people ought to be able to make their own success or, with had luck, suffer defeat. But we shouldn't be telling them what to do," Barnes said...
...nation may take greater heart from the luminous words he flung into the face of white America: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws. We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer. And in winning our freedom, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process." In his death, if not in life, Martin Luther King...
...peculiar structure (extraordinarily choppy scenes, long narrative passages) of this weak adaption suggests it is faithful to its source--no doubt too faithful. When a play tries hard to resemble a book, both play and book are bound to suffer...
Passion and primitivism are also part of the Haitian people's strength. In a Haitian church on Sunday morning, they make no pretense of wealth or sophistication. They don't suffer mal du siecle, they aren't neurotic, introspective, or brooding. They come to church to share the little they have...