Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues, but feared a growth in curial influence over the order if Arrupe were weakened. It therefore rallied round the Superior General, who is now strongly entrenched in his post. Arrupe showed great confidence and diplomacy last month in a speech in which he admitted the Pope's anguish over the Jesuits. He becomingly confessed that his failings as an administrator were partly to blame, but added that any faults come from facing "very difficult problems" and "do not mean that the Society is unfaithful in its vocation...
Many of those on death row live with a special anguish; they face execution for crimes that are no longer capital offenses in North Carolina. In 1973 the state supreme court ruled that for all crimes that once carried an optional death sentence, execution must now be the punishment. Then the state legislature passed a somewhat more lenient law, which last April changed the penalty to life imprisonment for arson, first-degree burglary and nonforcible rape. But the lawmakers did not see fit to make it retroactive...
...FLEDGING adolescent a few years back I attempted to allay my middle-class guilt by adopting a philosophy of romantic asceticism. By keeping a frugal eye on my role as an American consumer, I was able to escape the mental anguish of coming from a financially comfortable family. At the same time I could strike a self-satisfying pose of identification with the underprivileged of the world. Only three things, I reasoned, justified any type of expenditure--books, records, and travel. These principles allowed me to obtain material happiness (books, records, and travel being all I really desired) while simultaneously...
Kill Them Again! At Qiryat Shemona, Ma'alot and Kibbutz Shamir -other border communities that had been shocked by fedayeen attacks earlier this year-the primary response was anguish and grief, as well as anger. Bet She'an was somehow different. An enraged mob hurled the bodies of the dead guerrillas from a second-story apartment window, kicked them, spat on them, stabbed them with sticks, then doused them with kerosene and set them afire. "Kill them again! Kill them again!" some shouted. Throwing back Israeli policemen who tried to smother the flames with blankets, the crowd chanted...
Although jurors anguish over how their decision will be judged by posterity, publishers are more concerned about how it will be received by this year's Christmas shoppers. The 50-franc ($10.63) prize money will scarcely allow Novelist Laine to do more than make a polite purchase of the runner-up's oeuvre. Nonetheless, the honor should secure his novel sales of up to half-a-million copies. Even if public taste should deem La Dentellière a "bad" Goncourt, the odds are that at least 200,000 Frenchmen will be reading what the author calls...