Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SENSE, Horovitz relishes the anguish more than any solution. He claims he would burn a play he had written if it contained "the answers." He sees his role as pointing his audience in the right direction, of alarming them, of transforming their instinct into a desire to correct...
...school respected for its academic standing, Tarr can claim rapport with the young and considerable sympathy for their problems. While his own children will probably never have to worry about the draft -he has two daughters, twelve and eleven-Tarr as president of a small university knew firsthand the anguish the draft can cause. "I think I can talk with the young," he said. "I'd at least like to be as close to young people in the service as possible...
Still, as in all good humorists, there has often been an implied anguish, a faint twinge of bitterness behind the witty satire. King's most recent work, titled Farmers and currently displayed at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, is not comic at all, but starkly tragic. It consists of a dozen or so limp, lifeless figures fashioned from corrugated cardboard. King ran up a pair of black cotton pajamas for each, made conical hats from brown wrapping paper, and tossed them all in a casual heap on the floor. "I wanted to make a point...
...Israel's doleful familiarity with "the phenomenon of the common grave," Mrs. Meir buried her face in her hands and wept. Then she dried her tears and in a firm voice urged: "Let us turn the sorrow and rage into a mighty force, real and moral. Let our anguish cry out to the world, and our rage be a lever for action to eliminate the possibility of such acts...
...doing so. In 1937 when he resolved to leave the Party-in the middle of the Moscow purges-he had come to regard Communism as an absolute evil. But he placed little hope in the U.S. or the European democracies either. How could he? Fascism, despair, hysteria, exploitation, economic anguish, war and the threat of war-all those things that Marx had taught him would herald the destruction of capitalism were all about him. What fell from Chambers, as he explained, was not merely Communism but "the whole web of the materialist modern mind-the luminous shroud which...