Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gaudy huskies as "Gorgeous George," a marcelled, peroxide blond who made the sham slaughter seem even more ridiculous by his coy shenanigans in the ring and out. "The queens are passe now," says Columnist Jimmy Cannon, but wrestlers are still getting away with their hammy histrionics, still faking pain, anguish and angry violence with steady success...
...Christ is born." One of the play's engaging qualities is its childlike mixture of varying emotions: a scene of wanton rejoicing to the fluttering sound of recorders gives way to a mood of reverence, signified by the sweet-sounding psaltery, and again to the quiet, harp-punctuated anguish of Daniel's farewell to Darius ("Is it thus, O King, that you wish me to perish...
...were sick of the "serious" theatre--of playwrights who make love to their anguish; of sonambulists gurgling from garbage cans; of semi-articulate anthropoids stumbling between sets and grunting their soliloquies; all the varied fare of trash and tedium which passes for tragedy on the Stage of the Common Man--then check your despair at the door. A great play given a great production has come to Broadway; one must hang out all the old abused superlatives and this time mean them...
...resultant "pain and mental anguish" plus lost wages (he is still not back at work), Huggins' suit demands a jury trial and $450,000 damages from Dr. Graves and the hospital owners...
Taking the affirmative, two Wellesley girls tried to define death as including "mental anguish," and dishonor as "only what a woman does against her will." But the Yardlings objected...