Word: angst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Referring to your article "A Severe Case of Angst in Europe" [Oct. 4]. I should like to state that the events in neighboring Czechoslovakia and particularly the presence of Warsaw Pact troops in that country have understandably received utmost attention by the Austrian government. But I would like to make it absolutely clear that at no instance and from no quarter whatsoever any threats have been uttered against Austria which would have justified fears as to an eventual violation of Austrian neutrality. The measures taken by the Austrian government during the present crisis were primarily designed to maintain order...
Propaganda Barrage. Nowhere is Europe's new mood of angst felt more keenly than in West Germany. Last week, as the Bundestag met for a two-day debate on the new threat to West Germany's security, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger expressed his people's anxiety in careful, guarded terms. "The events in Czechoslovakia compel us to exercise a high degree of vigilance," he said. "While the nuclear balance has diminished the threat of an all-out nu clear war, it also made a conventional attack by a potential enemy no longer seem impossible...
...Pleasence). Goldman has a jigsaw-puzzle personality. He wants only a "kosher" staff around him, yet he indulges in acridly anti-Semitic remarks. With bewildering rapidity, his accented spray of words veers from the clever to the vulgar to the mad. In a sense, Goldman is the kind of Angst-ridden creature a very bright student might have constructed after making a close study of how Harold Pinter fashions his characters. Since Shaw acted the mentally disturbed older brother in Pinter's The Caretaker, the influence is scarcely surprising...
FIRE! by John Roc, pseudonym for a new American playwright. An allegory about angst...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD is this season's winner of the Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Tony. From Shakespeare's clay, Tom Stoppard has fashioned two contemporary characters of existentialist angst, Beckettian apprehension and collegiate...