Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearly not taken such advice. Most Americans, whether moved by religion or common decency, still try to follow the Fifth Commandment and "honor" their parents. But despite their concern, and frequently the anguish that marks their hard decisions about the elderly, the position of the aged in the U.S. has grown parlous. A couple of decades ago, most Americans who reached 65, the admittedly arbitrary age for retirement, could look forward to spending their last years in peace and security, respected and cared for by their families and friends. No longer. For an increasing number of Americans, the years after...
Unaffected by the anguish of the recent past, they are waving off hard drugs and hard political lines in favor of good-time music and that oldest of adolescent verities: fun. Gone are the trademarks of yesteryear: denim fatigues, dove-crowned peace flags, bottles of Ripple wine. In their place can be found pastel tennis shoes, American flags and Tab. Many fans come in halter tops for a suntan and to be part of the carnival scene. They just want to dance boogie and sing along. Says Chicago Lyricist Robert Lamm, 30: "These days nobody wants to hear songs that...
When Robert Frost was given an honorary degree at Oxford University a few years ago, he stopped in Ireland to receive the same honor from the University of Ireland. Frost met Austin Clarke, earlier a very promising Irish poet who, through too many years of personal anguish, had lost his touch. But Frost was anxious to talk with Clarke, and taking him aside, they spent several hours together, Clarke later said that Frost asked him what kind of verse he wrote and uncertain of the proper answer he blurted out. "I load myself with chains...
...couple, driving them to the hospital, and translating for them. It would get me in the pit of my stomach when I'd walk up the stairs to their apartment and the paint would come off in my hands. It is a very emotional experience for me. The anguish involved, the frustrations, the anger--the thrills." In contrast to Wong, whose efforts have covered the spectrum of social problems in Chinatown, Janet Moy '75 has concentrated her work on the health problems of the community. Last month she was elected to the executive board of the Boston Community Health Center...
...understood disease. Those afflicted by it usually have to fight it on their own and with inadequate weapons. Journey is the story of the Massies' struggle, which so far has been successful. The chapters written by Robert tend to deal with technical details. Suzanne concentrates on her personal anguish and the years of caring for Bobby. If she sometimes seems to overwrite, the book proves how thoroughly she has earned the right to do so. Her descriptions of the emotional and physiological effects of hemophilia on exhausted parents, as well as children, are heartrending. Its portrait of Bobby Massie...