Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NATURALLY, with PALC still inside Mass Hall, a few skeptics suspected that Bok's anguish over the wrongs of Angola and his determination to call attention to them were partly a matter of expediency. But nothing could have been further from the truth--for even today, more than two years later, Bok still has never taken the statement back. Of course, he still hasn't found an ideal way of fulfilling it, either. It might have seemed as though last month's coup by Portuguese officers displeased with their country's colonial policy, followed by widely-publicized continuing ferment...
...Knife, a freshly widowed father slips a much prayed-for knife under his small son's pillow to encourage him in the belief that prayers can be answered. Then, in anguish, he realizes that the boy is hopefully petitioning God for the return of his dead mother. In Something You Just Don't Do in a Club, a lawyer's starchy presumption of friendship and honor among his fellows sets him up to be cheerfully bilked by the club deadbeat. In Last Things, the longest and most affecting piece in the book, the indomitably optimistic and innocent...
...this evidence, and the jury was excused as the lawyers argued the point. Suddenly Stans lost his buoyant composure, burying his face in his hands, his shoulders shaking with emotion. When Judge Lee P. Gagliardi decided to allow the testimony next day, Stans' voice was strained with anguish and he was near tears as he described his wife's condition. She had been suffering from a rare blood disease that caused her to bleed from her eyes and mouth and to have 13 transfusions within a few days...
With an extraordinarily beautiful and rich tone, particularly in the low range, Francis Hester convincingly conveyed the anguish and resignation of Jesus. He generated a palpable emotional intensity in an understated, wonderfully sensitive performance. David Bachrach was an accurate and effective Pontius Pilate...
...effect of the work has nothing to do with expressionism. For all their thinness and scarred surfaces, Giacometti's bronzes are not about anguish or loss, loneliness or the post-Hiroshima terrors. They are emotionally quite ineloquent. This may be one reason for their survival into a time when most of the angst-pushing European sculpture of the 1940s and '50s has vanished down the historical drain. In his obsession with the difficulty of seeing, Giacometti wished to get beyond style. He partially succeeded because - paradoxical as it may seem - he was culturally saturated, an artist of enormous...