Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They read about numbers and violence in the newspapers. Like the body counts from Vietnam. however, such reports pale in comparison to direct experience. In the past week these congressmen have been directly confronted by veterans, many of them crippled, asking why and pointing the finger of blame and anguish. The re-actions were visible on the congressmen's faces...
...overworked Nazi parallel, what if it had been Hitler? Would sitting quietly and giving him the finger be an adequate expression of our revulsion and rage? In many of us, representatives of current American policy in Indochina, the Third World and in our own backyard arouse no less fury, anguish and despair than Adolph. No one was physically prevented from speaking, and the First Amendment, as far as I know, does not guarantee the right to be heard. At worst the anti-war people can be accused of allowing their emotions to lead them to a stupid tactic which might...
...first, the half-hour television film The Passover seems to be one of those instructive seasonal documentaries. A Jewish family is sitting down to a typical Passover Seder. An announcer tells the story of the Exodus, the Jews' anguish in Egypt and their struggle to leave, and that terrible night the Angel of the Lord passed by the houses of the Jews to strike down the first-born sons of their Egyptian masters. On the traditional Seder table are the symbolic foods: the salt water and bitter herbs, reminders of the time of bondage; the roasted lamb, recalling...
...Bacon Death, by Marsha Paterson. The author was a totally nondescript young woman except for a look of anguish on her face. She handed me this fantastically greasy book and fled...
Scott seems to have invested more than the usual portion of his personal anguish and anger in the role of Archie, an affluent San Francisco physician newly separated from his wife, who falls crazily in love with a tormented bitch named Petulia. Lester's film contains some of the best sequences of sexual and romantic tension ever caught by a camera, and Scott provides most of them. In one memorable scene, his ex-wife has come to visit him and brings a bag of homemade cookies with her as a peace offering. As the discussion becomes edgier and more hostile...