Word: anguish
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...Eyes of Anguish. The musical crowningly succeeds, just as Brecht did, by failing to observe two pet Brechtian laws: Do not let the audience indulge in an emotional binge. And teach it a lesson. The intended lessons of Mother Courage and Oh What a Lovely War are virtually identical. Brecht and Littlewood both argue that wars are engineered by knaves, fought and suffered by fools, and exploited by profiteers. But playgoers get a different message. They come away instead with heightened respect for the indomitability of the human spirit in adversity...
...Charles has done beautiful things with the great possibilities for humor and anguish that do exist in Poet. Leigh Warton is superb as Cornelius Melody--the role brings out the qualities in any versatile actor. Katherine Squire plays his wife Nora with a simplicity that suggests deep understanding of her role. As Sara, Miss Alexander has the most demanding job, and particularly in the third act she is wonderful. But her accent is too American--it lies nowhere between her father's aristocratic tone and her mother's brogue--and some of her movements are not fitting...
...sundown one day last week, as thousands watched, grimy, bearded Andre Martinet emerged at the surface, ending eight days and seven hours of anguish. "I waited and hoped, but above all I prayed," said Martinet. Safe at last, he immediately volunteered to go down once again to try to find five other men trapped in different passages, but at week's end rescue efforts for them were abandoned. Next, vowed Martinet, he was going to apply for a new job-above ground...
...that conclusion did very little concluding. Still stretching ahead was the steep, stone-stubbled campaign road to November. And in their anger and anguish at Goldwater's imminent nomination, Barry's Republican critics seized on battle cries that will echo hither and yon-and be picked up by the Democrats-throughout the coming campaign...
...concluding sequence, which he frankly labeled "sometimes metaphysical," Roethke was on fire with God. "What shakes the eye but the invisible/ Running from God's the longest race of all," he wrote. And in a voice of anguish and protesting confrontation rarely heard in poetry since Donne called on his deity to "batter my heart, three person'd God," Roethke cries...