Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only 2,000 yards wide. The French artillery was ineffective by comparison: it had lost about half of its guns. The surviving French tanks were bogged down in the muck of the early monsoon, and French tactical air was often blinded in the haze. And there was the anguish of the wounded, who could not be flown out due to Red interdiction and part-capture of the airstrip. Wrote Charles Favrel from Indo-China to Paris' influential and neutralist Le Monde...
...with Perkins, then cried and whimpered ("My mother'11 kill me, I wasn't doin' nothin'."). At the station house, Reed was again ready with his recording equipment as the boy's mother wailed for minutes and then, in subdued tones, told of the anguish of sitting at home, waiting for her son's return: "I've been up almost 15 hours on the clock . . . watching that bed of yours...
...oratorio The Seven Words of Christ on the Cross by Heinrich Schuetz, a German composer who lived a century before Bach. The opening and closing choral ensembles are an exhortation to think upon the Seven Words on this anniversary of the Crucifixion as a means of sharing the anguish of Christ. The body of the oratorio is part of the passion given in narrative and dramatic form by five soloists. After the Seven Words--"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"--found in Matthew and Mark, we hear the less enigmatic pronouncement from Luke, "Father, into thy hands...
...final story, "In the Cockpit" by Eric Wentworth, is a tale of the physical and emotional anguish encountered by a boy on a tuna fishing expedition. Wentworth has given his story a swift pace by emphasizing the boy's progressive exhaustion as he pulls a fish up from the sea. His passages on the boy's psychological reaction to his approaching failure often seem to break the continuity of the action unnecessarily and they add a pedestrian touch to the piece...
...theme is that man's greatest moments, the instants of highest creativity or most meaningful experience, are wholly out of time. Two women attend an art show and see a picture showing Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Melville's wife. The two authors step from the picture--Melville in anguish over a passage of Moby Dick and Hawthorne trying to capture an image. As a ticking clock stops and time stands still, both men are inspired...