Word: anguish
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...with the United Mine Workers as it is in the Mafia. The order to kill-to kill our whole family if necessary-was as routinely transmitted and carried out as an order to call a strike or settle a grievance." Thus Kenneth and Chip Yablonski gave vent to their anguish last week when they learned more of the gruesome details of why their father had been killed. Pleading guilty to murder, a minor U.M.W. official named Silous Huddleston confessed that the union had arranged the assassination of Rebel Miner Joseph Yablonski, along with his wife and daughter; only the sons...
...lust quieted, Felix is promptly besieged by a battalion of guilts. The girl is the wife of his best friend (Tony Roberts), who was too busy with financial wheeling and dealing to pay proper attention to her. Remorse. Anguish. What would Bogie have done? The ectoplasmic Bogart steers Felix through an honorable leave-taking at foggy San Francisco airport-Casablanca come true...
Unpredictably clever, obscurely erudite, obstinately elusive about answering his own questions, Sloan could be the Comrade V. of novelists: the talebearer as dehumanized intellect. But he is not-quite. As in his first novel, War Games, brilliance is redeemed by anguish-evidence that Sloan's passion is not for the labyrinth but for the people trapped in it. And to potential subway-syndrome readers, this makes all the difference. "Melvin Maddocks...
...Dien Bien Phu, the armies of North Vietnam have moved en masse against a Western power intent on ruling in their country. The current offensive in Vietnam is not politically senseless, nor is it an exercise in random brutality; it is firmly rooted in the political torment and human anguish that have been created by American policy. And we can only hope that the Americans and their South Vietnamese mercenaries will suffer the same fate as did the French...
...Vietnamese to accomplish what no antiwar movement in this country has been able to do: to rid South Vietnam of the Thieu regime and end American involvement in Indochina. Yet that does not diminish the feeling that our support for the North Vietnamese in the time of their greatest anguish and trial must be strong and convincing. The Vietnamese fighters whom American planes are bombing are not our enemies: they are the only progressive force in South Vietnam. It is time we realized this, and put our realization into practice. And the time has long since arrived for an immediate...