Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series, which PBS's Masterpiece Theater began showing in 1974, finished its American run in the spring of 1977-to universal wailing and desperate cries of anguish from several million devoted fans. A Manhattan distributor, Group IV, picked up the rerun rights when the PBS deal ran out. Starting at various times this month and in the next several weeks, Upstairs, Downstairs will be shown on 46 commercial stations around the country...
...history. A girl's black bell-bottomed trousers "flare out as shadow would flare out/ If the source of light/ Were centered in her belly." The poet moves in his leather jacket, "a cow's hide stuffed with soul." In "War" he compresses the century's anguish to four barbed-wire lines...
...plight of the wretched Vietnamese Boat People should make all of us cry in anguish. Can't we find a way to offer sanctuary to those desperate enough to flee from their homes instead of witnessing repeated capsizings of old tubs, drownings and miserable wanderings because no port is open to them? We are such a big country and they...
...particular findings to detect their limits. Let the stunning statistic from the Utah study stand-but add to it the universal knowledge that roughly ten out often people suffer "adverse emotional reactions" to life itself. Those who do not ought to have their heads examined. Even saints-especially saints-anguish. Evidently humankind from ages immemorial has known a rough time in that darkest gully of the year the season of the winter solstice. In fact, most historians agree that it was precisely to relieve the morbidity inherent in the season that the species invented the extravagant celebrations that have endured...
William Cohen, 38, first broke into the national scene as the young Congressman from Maine whose boyish face registered his anguish during the House Judiciary Committee's televised debates over the impeachment of Richard Nixon. Deftly turning phrases (Cohen has published a book of poetry, Of Sons and Seasons), he explained that circumstantial evidence was enough to support a vote of impeachment. "Conspiracies are not born in the sunlight," he said. "They are hatched in dark recesses, amid whispers and code words." A former Bowdoin College basketball star who frequently quotes from the Latin classics, Cohen still carries that same...