Word: anguish
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...realize there's going to be a reaction," Buchanan said. "You consider it and you try to diminish the consequences. No one wants to see any anguish, but the President thought the decision was right and he made...
...rest of the cast, only Donald Madden as Eilert Lovborg, Hedda's prime target (apart from herself), achieves true Ibsenite intensity and anguish. In a profoundly moving scene he tells of losing his manuscript in the way that a carousing father might lose all track of a child and who, coming home, says to the mother, "I lost the child-completely lost him. God knows who's got hold of him." After giving an animal cry, Madden opens his mouth again in a terrible soundless scream and sags lifelessly, like a crucified soul. That is an epiphany...
Princess Margaret doubted that she would ever understand the system. Nervous housewives stocked up on groceries to save themselves the anguish of trying to figure out how much change they should be getting. D (for Decimal) Day is at hand. Next week the British will join the rest of the world by switching to a decimal currency system. Even though they have had five years to prepare for the event, many of them are saying that the D stands for Derangement...
This is not to deny that Beckett is an extremely fine and sensitive writer who has distilled his private anguish into prose poetry. His novels may well prove durable. In drama, he is the apostle of anti-theater. Theater is concrete. Beckett tries to make it abstract. Theater is visceral. Beckett is cerebral. Drama is the imitation of action. Beckett dotes on stasis, anti-action...
...great are the numbers that they numb: no mind can do the sums of individual anguish, privation and frustration that make up the whole. In Chicago, Welfare Director David L. Daniel says that the Cook County rolls will increase from 485,000 at the end of 1970 to 625,000 this year. In Newark, 25% of the population is getting aid, and Essex County Welfare Director Philip K. Lazaro says: "We are on the brink of financial disaster." In Los Angeles, the case load is now above 800,000 and rising by 10,000 to 15,000 a month...