Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed by the Nazis. "God has reserved to himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it," Bonhoeffer wrote. "Even if [a person's] earthly life has become a torment for him, he must commit it intact to God's hand, from which it came...
...needs to find a job and live a decent life. America's educational system has failed to provide this constitutionally guaranteed right especially to black and other minority children, and the results can be seen in the high rate of unemployment and low wages that torment black America...
...speak its name" has become one of the compulsive chatterboxes of the New York stage. Homosexuality surfaced as an acceptable theme with Mart Crowley's 1968 humane comedy, The Boys in the Band. This was followed by a number of dramas that waxed soulful on the ecstasy-torment of being gay or the purgative honesty (Find Your Way Home) of admitting gayness and acting upon it. Most of these plays were visual testimonials to bodybuilding exercises and auditory proof of acute self-pity but, for all their vibrations, no great shakes as drama. Now the cycle has gone...
...perfectionist," says Barry, "I can't stand mediocrity." If being a one-man offense is perfection, Barry is indeed close to the mark. Tall enough (6 ft. 7½ in.) and heavy enough (220 Ibs.) to hold his own against most rival forwards, Barry can torment opponents with a deadly outside jump shot or exceptionally quick moves to the basket. Already this season, he has scored more than 40 points in ten games. "I don't believe any one man can prevent me from scoring," he says. Because he has been so hot, he often draws double coverage...
...playoffs in 1972, but since then they have slumped badly, finishing this season with three straight defeats and a sagging 6-8 record. Disillusioned Green Bay fans who wanted nothing less than a consistent winner like their late coach, Vince Lombardi, subjected Devine and his family to unremitting torment (TIME, Oct. 7). "I wouldn't be human," he says, "if I weren't a little bitter. In all honesty, I can't say I could have stayed on in those conditions...