Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country may well suffer from what President Nixon calls "a massive crisis" in public health. If so, the national malady does not seem to be of undue concern to the American Medical Association. At the A.M.A.'s semiannual convention last week in Manhattan's Coliseum, the members came equipped with the usual bag of proposals to block "socialized medicine." It was not to be business as usual, however. Just after the predominantly white, middle-aged doctors had joined in a 30-minute tribute to the flag, a strident group of young medical students, doctors and nurses burst into...
...daunted. These undaunted men are the true creators of history, those thanks to whom history is not a blind chain of facts but a clear-sighted sequence of acts-events that were ideas before they happened. It is from men who act on nature, and do not merely suffer to be acted upon by her, that history flows...
Helping others is not encouraged by law, as many people are aware. In most states, good Samaritans who intervene can be sued for their trouble and must bear the cost of any injuries they may suffer. Helpers weighing the possible risks of intervening are also concerned about losing their freedom, says University of Wisconsin Psychologist Leonard Berkowitz. When one person helps another, says Berkowitz, the helper almost inevitably feels that he has come under the sway of the person whom he is assisting...
...tension they face, many businessmen do not suffer from executive breakdowns. To find out why, two San Francisco physicians, Dr. Ray Rosenman and Dr. Meyer Friedman, have been keeping records on 3,000 men from ten corporations since 1960. They have divided their subjects into two groups. The "A" man is aggressive and harddriving, the kind of competitor who hates to lose. He is almost surely heading for trouble. The "B" man is more relaxed. He does not take his problems away from the office, and he is occasionally late to work. He also lives longer. Since the study began...
...Williams' account, all suffer from role fatigue-the sort of exhaustion afflicting actors in a play that has run too long. One of the whites says: "I think I am very tired of being a Jew." Williams, clearly, is very tired of being a black. He seems to assume that his characters, whether they know it or not, are stifled as much by the kind of ennui that immobilizes men trapped in situations they cannot control as by the terror of their predicament...