Word: anguish
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Events of the Agnew magnitude produce momentary political paralysis and anguish. Then comes the time of reflection and clarification; and then the aftershock, when people see they have been right or wrong and decide how they feel...
TORN BY the anguish and embarrassment the Nixon Administration has brought to American politics, Congressional Democrats and Republicans alike have seized upon the vice presidential nomination of their colleague of 25 years, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford Jr. (R-Mich.), as if he indeed offered "the new beginning" the president has promised. Predicting swift confirmation, they have mistaken a hasty and politically expedient choice for a wise...
Philosophy has historically been the province of a select few. If, as Thoreau said, "The great mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," their anguish can usually be traced to social conditions, to conditions made by men that can be changed by men. Workers control in the factories of this country, for example, would do much toward eradicating the sense of futility felt by the people who labor in them. The bigger questions can be examined only after this sort of immediate, resolvable problem has been tackled and a new society is being created. In this sense, then...
...anguish, the turmoil and the promise of the real world have frequently been obscured by rhetoric and distorted by slogans," Kissinger declared...
...however, over the tenderness and eventual sorrow of the relationship. Director-Writer Arthur Barron, though adept at catching the surfaces and undertones of mildly affluent New York life, indulges in a kind of high-calorie sentimentality that seems itself adolescent, without being able to convey the real turbulence and anguish of adolescence. He glazes Jeremy over with winsomeness, and seems to demand that it be liked for its own slightness and vulnerability...