The final results of refurbishment were much admired by visitors – though not by George Eliot, who remarked cuttingly on the "splendid library, of course, with soft carpet, couches etc, such as became a sympathiser with the suffering classes.
Food insecurity is plaguing our college campuses, with thousands of students each year skipping meals, going to bed hungry and suffering in class. .
She then listed various statistics about the economy and suffering middle class.
This is a contention that most Americans might readily agree with in terms of their daily experience, but one that the hardly suffering pundit class would rather not contemplate.
Two of the most interesting artists, the conceptual photographer Miwa Yanagi and the painter Tomoko Kashiki, belong to a long-suffering class in Japanese society: women.
"Indians are first class people suffering from third class governance," he said, saying only a minority could prosper in India.
And while minority and under-class groups of society were suffering, the middle class did not rally, and was not actively engaged in their fight for social and economic justice.
Mr. McConaughey and Ms. Hudson, who were less than electrifying in "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," appear to be suffering through a class in remedial chemistry, which they barely pass.
Historically, New York has been a mecca of immigration, with countless stories of the Statue of Liberty being the first thing that the denizens of established Irish and Jewish neighborhoods arriving in New York City saw after suffering in steerage class across continents.
The greatest uptake of an intervention is amongst the highest social groups, with the lowest social classes suffering from diminished intervention coverage, weaker health services and greater disease exposure.
Re "Reading the Writing on the Envelope" (Digital Domain, Oct. 2), which described the quandary facing the United States Postal Service: A primary problem for the postal service is that its valuable, first-class mail deliveries are suffering while bulk, lower classes continue to stress the system.
