Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chaplain and First Sergeant seem, in their own ways, understanding enough. The sergeant private's anguish family" and "motivation" problems. The Chaplain, a Negro, offers to talk with him at any time. Both higher-ups are split between their sympathy for Hickman and the programmed reactions of their military routine. At one point, the chaplain slips into: "All of life is really a lot of ups and downs..." Which somewhat dazes the would-be suicide...
...make up for their generally skimpy substance. Louis Reed's rock-lyric, "Sweet Jane," begs for music, but it might not bear too many listenings. Elizabeth Fenton's "More Rain", on the other hand, is a list of the conditions of a strained relationship that builds an undertone of anguish by effectively calculated repetition and an ironic sense of restraint...
Attica mourned its dead amidst undercurrents of anger and fear. The prison?the community's largest employer?had suddenly become not a source of income but of anguish, the focus of events beyond understanding and beyond control. Now police, reporters from large cities and assorted strangers poked around and asked questions, spreading rumors, raising new fears before the old ones had subsided. "We've been told to expect more trouble," explained Warren Peck, the local barber. "We don't want reprisals taken here," said a man near by. "But if they come in from Buffalo and start trouble, I think...
...Hatfield's growing opposition to the war in Viet Nam had already earned him a healthy amount of thinly disguised hate mail from "fellow Christians." The letters faulted the Senator for criticizing the President and accused him of encouraging antiwar protest. He came to the occasion in obvious anguish...
...proportions of brutal historical forces. Significant blows are struck. White buries his weapon in black's brain. Black directs a castrating swipe at white's sexuality. Malamud himself brings the curtain down with the brooding thought that at the moment of ritual bloodletting each felt the anguish of the other...