Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PHILOSOPHICAL MOOD of The Basement Tapes falls somewhere between the existential anguish of Blonde on Blonde and its moral resolution on John Wesley Harding. Dylan has gone beyond those visions of Johanna which kept him up past dawn...
...sworn duty to drown the flames and clear the air. As a zealous fire fighter, he has been taking care of urban conflagrations for twelve years. To dissipate the clouds of rumor and misinformation, he wrote Report from Engine Co. 82, a bestselling documentary that described the routine and anguish of men whose job is actuarially the most dangerous in the U.S. As if his occupation were not hazardous enough, Smith has now produced a novel, a trial by fire of a different sort. On the evidence, he earns solid if un spectacular probationary status...
...Because of its new political stance, "the homosexual world is exerting taboos of its own. Young men are now not only faced with the traditional forces that encourage homosexuals to hate themselves, but also must contend with a strong counterpressure to deny even to themselves whatever conflict, pain, or anguish they feel." Says homosexual Poet Allen Ginsberg: "I think a lot of homosexual conflict comes from internalizing society's distrust of your loves, finally doubting your own loves, and therefore not being able to act on them...
...into an almost impossible position as a writer: he was "an artist who must on no account betray his emotions." But he argues that Kipling struggled bravely and imaginatively to deliver himself whole to his reader, and that in fact his later, lesser-known stories- such parables in anguish as The Gardener and Mary Postgate-were his masterpieces...
...Here he uses I-am-a-camerawork to fill the mind's eye, with scenes following one another like projected slides. Incidents are unobtrusively introduced until the reader seems to be a guest, then a participant in Tarden's intrigues. Some of those plans include obsessive sexual anguish that amounts to sadomasochism. Others concern the pornography of violence; a skiing accident, stained with blood and waste, and a murder by radar are as gripping and horrific as any passage in any of this year's thrillers...