Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Large-scale busing for integration is not a long-range solution to the inequalities that still afflict American society. It is a transitional inconvenience, an interim, makeshift answer to an awkward social problem. Many of the protests against it, accompanied by all the anguish and apprehension it causes in many white families, have a claim to respect. Yet, until bad schools improve and neighborhoods integrate, to outlaw busing would be to run the risk that the dangerous gulf between two nations ?one black, one white?could grow even wider...
...rather a nice solution to any questions of Jewishness. The lawyer is appointed to rid the community of these symbols of religious exclusivity and suffering. But the lawyer undergoes a transformation of identity and winds up wearing the D.P.'s clothing, and beating his breast in ritual anguish. Michael Tolan undergoes this probe of the tribal subconscious with moving sensitivity...
Other doctors, notably William Carlos Williams, have combined literature and medicine. Boris Pasternak, in Doctor Zhivago, regarded the fusion as a ministry to body and spirit. Ronald Glasser, 31, considers his excursion into prose less a vocation than a special necessity of the moment, a response to the anguish and perplexity of young soldiers who are, he believes, essentially children. He has no immediate plans to write anything else...
...well. The spy holes on the door opened every ten minutes, the lights clicked on and off all night in a mad psychedelic light show. We were subjected to the "hot and cold water treatment" of having a roommate (usually a spy) and then enduring the anguish of solitary confinement (five months of it)--all this I knew to be the daily lot of the woman that I had decided to marry, in spite of war, in spite of barbed wire and hate, and in spite of the Secret Police who told me: "It is totally within our power whether...
...East Germany with Elizabeth and then take me out and interrogate me and put me away again in a work camp on espionage charges, and that if that wasn't enough they would destroy my personal existence (Existenz) after I was released. But what caused me the most moral anguish was their constant reminder that they had the sole power to determine whether or not Elizabeth would be released to go to the West to marry...