Word: sufferings
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...skull of an oppressive society -- and the street mood is rancid, desperate. It makes one wonder if Ellison's message ever got through to the larger public. As he declared in his 1963 essay "The World and the Jug," he wrote not from a belief that blacks can only suffer and rage, but from "an American Negro tradition which teaches one to deflect racial provocation and to master and contain pain. It is a tradition which abhors as obscene any trading on one's own anguish for gain and sympathy; which springs not from a desire to deny the harshness...
Marivaux's plays were long derided as being wordy, high-flown and much alike -- they are all about the lengths to which people will go, the rules they will break and the indignities they will suffer in pursuit of romance. As rediscovery began a few years ago, European and avant-garde American stagings often emphasized the dark elements of his work. At the other extreme, some scholars saw only his fascination with Italian commedia dell'arte buffoonery. The premier Marivaux exponent Stephen Wadsworth, who directed his translation of Triumph at Berkeley and is staging his text of Changes of Heart...
...former employers is the fastest- growing category of workplace violence," says Joseph Kinney, executive director of the National Safe Workplace Institute in Chicago. And deaths are only the worst outcome of the problem: a 1993 survey by Northwestern National Life Insurance suggests that more than 2 million employees suffer physical attacks on the job each year and more than 6 million are threatened in some way. "They run the gamut from anonymous love letters on secretaries' desks to feces smeared on men's room walls to death threats sent to CEOs' homes to workers talking of mass murder and specifying...
Certainly, the cast and the play, particularly the somewhat rushed opening scene, need work. Character and story development suffer needlessly due to the time constraints. O'Brien might do herself well by trying to expand the length of the show, or at least slow it down. Not only would it establish the play as a more serious piece of work, it might allow the audience to digest more of its valuable message. Right now, it is so jam-packed with intelligence that some of it can't help but leave us feeling a little illiterate...
...baby can be. No other animal is so helpless for so long -- so dependent on adults for food, shelter, attention, instruction and a nurturing environment in which to develop and grow. Scientists have learned that babies subjected to repeated trauma or stress or left unattended for too long may suffer neurological effects that can, in extreme cases, be irreversible. But as a society, the U.S. seems to have forgotten the needs of its youngest children. Of the 12 million American babies and toddlers under age three, a staggering number are at risk of harm that could last a lifetime, according...