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We were all her friends, Maggie, and Bill, and Anne,And I, and the nice Boston Brahmin elderly manNamed Duncan, utterly friendly and benign.And of course it wasn't whether or not the worldWas benign but whether it looked at her too much.She wasn't 'painfully shy' but just the same I wouldn't be surprised if there had beenPainfulness in her shyness earlier on,Say at dancing school.
Characters often take several minutes to enter and exit the stage, moving painfully slowly in one of Japan’s greatest examples of form over function.
It is this quality--or lack of quality--of simply transplanting the real and making it into "shocking" art, which is in my opinion the bane of contemporary art today, nowhere more painfully than at the Brooklyn Museum.
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.
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."