Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...financial return, then goes on to suggest the establishment of several more committees plus a "Faculty for the Study of Social Problems," an idea whose time will never come. Over the past year, President Bok and the Corporation have issued and propagated several documents on Harvard investments, revealing escalating anguish but no consistent policy, not even that of expediency...
Despite his denial, a terminal patient nearly always knows the truth. Discouraging him from talking about it puts him under great strain. Even when his knowledge is unconscious, it is generally so close to the surface that the struggle to suppress it only compounds his anguish. When the struggle ends, the patient is "fortified, not undermined," Weisman says. He cites the case of a patient close to death who asked a hospital social worker how to find a nurse to look after her "when she went home." Because the patient had earlier talked freely about her death and her fear...
...with the United Mine Workers as it is in the Mafia. The order to kill-to kill our whole family if necessary-was as routinely transmitted and carried out as an order to call a strike or settle a grievance." Thus Kenneth and Chip Yablonski gave vent to their anguish last week when they learned more of the gruesome details of why their father had been killed. Pleading guilty to murder, a minor U.M.W. official named Silous Huddleston confessed that the union had arranged the assassination of Rebel Miner Joseph Yablonski, along with his wife and daughter; only the sons...
...lust quieted, Felix is promptly besieged by a battalion of guilts. The girl is the wife of his best friend (Tony Roberts), who was too busy with financial wheeling and dealing to pay proper attention to her. Remorse. Anguish. What would Bogie have done? The ectoplasmic Bogart steers Felix through an honorable leave-taking at foggy San Francisco airport-Casablanca come true...
Unpredictably clever, obscurely erudite, obstinately elusive about answering his own questions, Sloan could be the Comrade V. of novelists: the talebearer as dehumanized intellect. But he is not-quite. As in his first novel, War Games, brilliance is redeemed by anguish-evidence that Sloan's passion is not for the labyrinth but for the people trapped in it. And to potential subway-syndrome readers, this makes all the difference. "Melvin Maddocks...