Word: anguish
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...since Little Eva had there been such a deathbed scene. The 87th Congress expired interminably, and in oratorical anguish. But at least and at last it died...
...grisly detail upon grisly detail without being wise or eloquent enough to give the accumulation shape or meaning. He exposes nothing even vaguely profound about the company's inner experience, and most of the time seems hardly more articulate about emotions than the poor numbed soldiers whose traumatic anguish he once shared...
Keilson's novel is, at least in part, autobiographical. Like his hero, Keilson joined the Resistance after years of anguish, helped Jews and downed pilots escape from occupied Holland. In 1942 he wrote the first 40 pages of The Death of the Adversary, buried them in his garden for the duration of the war. "If ever I came out of this war alive," he vowed, "I knew I was going to be a psychiatrist." Today he is a practicing psychoanalyst in Amsterdam and writes poetry and fiction on the side. "Everybody writes novels about love and/or sex," he says...
They might have saved their money. By last week, as crowds of 100,000 cheered 1.300 athletes from 17 participating nations in spanking-new Senayan Stadium, the games had stirred more animosity and anguish than amity...
...develops to cut the investigation short and just report "suicide, causes unknown," Marks fights back out of the simplest of motives-he is angry at being pushed around. But when both Navy and lawyers back down, the lieutenant triumphantly becomes commander of the situation, only to learn the moral anguish of command decision. Going ahead with a Navy hearing will hurt the mother-whose whole story Marks now knows-and will, in itself, accomplish nothing useful. Or will...