Inspired by Émile Zola's 1901 novel "Travail," about a young industrialist who builds a utopian city, the architect Tony Garnier sought to design an ideal industrial town, with comfortable housing for the lower classes, medical facilities, trees, a train station, libraries, museums, schools, theaters and sports fields — but no church or police station.
At the same time, he was open about his high school travails and anxieties about dating.
Letterman had taken the opportunity of NBC's recent late-night programming travails — read all about them here, if you haven't read about them already everywhere else ad nauseum — to open old wounds, criticizing NBC for the way it radiated incompetence in general and for the way it treated Conan O'Brien in particular.
Half a dozen postulants from three different religions were filmed on the road to priesthood, and their travails said much about multi-faith Britain without ever labouring the point.
For years, mothers have been taking to the Internet to blog or post messages about the travails of motherhood, commiserating, fuming or laughing about their shared lives.
In a phone interview, Ms. Evans spoke about some of her ideas for the comedy about the travails of a woman whose best friend is getting married.
"Copenhagen," about quantum physics and the atomic bomb, and "Proof," about the travails of a mathematician, have won Tony Awards.
"BE KIND REWIND", a 2008 comedy about the travails of a small New Jersey video store, is not the best film ever made about the film business.
I'd like to hear elite women writing about making a better life for these women, not obsessing about the travails of a career and a life that the poor can only dream of.
Wells knows all about their travails.
