Word: angstful
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This particular brand of angst spread comparatively late among Germans. Back in the mid-1990s, they were still more consumed with the economic consequences of German reunification. Pollsters say that only in the past five years or so did Germans look up and start worrying about the costs of globalization, and their concerns seem to be growing. Last month the country rose as one in protest when Finnish mobile-phone giant Nokia announced it was shutting down its plant in the Rhineland city of Bochum to move to Romania, threatening 2,300 German jobs. When the local SPD branch called...
...before that, there hadn't been one since 1991. The move from manufacturing toward a less volatile services-dominated economy is one explanation. A more competent Federal Reserve is another. The trade-off has been that postrecession recoveries have been more muted than those of yore, while prerecession angst has, if anything, grown...
Less democratic nations have abolished the death penalty without regard for popular opinion. Less violent nations have forgotten the reasons for it. Less humane nations have no qualms about unfair executions. The kernel of the issue, it seems, is the signature American angst over how to balance individual rights with public order...
...premise of this title. What does Peter Cameron know about my pain? Who is Peter Cameron, anyway? I would normally assume that the boy drawn on the front is putting his hand in front of his face like that because of a headache, or maybe even deep, adolescent angst. But unlike Peter Cameron, I don’t like to make assumptions. For all I know, the boy could be studying palmistry...
...Anything produced by chimpanzees. No, seriously, there’s an exhibition planned Dec. 19-21 at the Ross School in East Hampton, New York that will be showcasing the work of chimpanzees who have been taught art as a therapy through which they can deal with the angst they feel at being captive. (If you raise one eyebrow skeptically, I won’t hold it against you.) 2. Any art Cosimo Cavallaro creates. Last Easter, the man who once covered an entire house with string cheese finished “My Sweet Lord...