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Du Bois wrote, "Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground."
A brown layer of pollution hangs over the city in both hot and cold weather; the seemingly endless hooting of horns down the wide boulevards and the drone of vehicles making painfully slow progress through the narrow streets raises noise levels; and in a city with so many apartments and so little parking it’s no surprise that sidewalks become places to leave your vehicle, and pedestrians must risk life and limb by walking on the roads.
And anyone with an interest in the history of economic thought will find the tale of how Keynes gradually, painfully arrived at his ideas--and of how his emerging vision clashed with rival schools of thought--fascinating.
The conciliatory policies that painfully emerged after the bloodshed brought the Protestant Prince of Navarre to the throne as Henri IV (1589–1610), but not before he promised to convert to Catholicism.
Warner Bros. refused to have an advance critics screening for this update of the beloved 1960s British TV show, and the reason is now obvious: The movie is "an unqualified disaster" (Dave Kehr, Daily News ). Ralph Fiennes' painfully awkward John Steed and Uma Thurman's beautiful but empty Emma Peel are said to have none of the charm and sexual tension that graced their TV counterparts.