Word: anguish
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...Joseph Schildkraut and Ruth Ford, has taken Pirandello's philosophie work and given it life. The theme, that there in an inner reality in an individual which can only be seen once his particular drama is recognized, is bandled with the skill befitting the work. All the tragedy, the anguish of incommunicability, is brought forth by the interplay between the forlorn characters and the befuddled actors...
...line has also drummed up a steady business in transporting corpses (it was sued for "mental anguish" by relatives when one shipment was delayed). This spring it added the Furniture Manufacturers' Association of Southern California as a steady customer. Prescott convinced the association that it could save on crating, ship cheaper by air than by the railroads' less-than-carload lots...
...Arson & Anguish. In the Collected Stones, Faulkner's blazing skill and lazy improvisations, his rich humor and corny folksiness, his deep sense of tragedy and tasteless gothic excesses are all brought together. About half a dozen stories are as good bits of fiction as have ever been written in the U.S.: Barn Burning, a poignant sketch of a boy's anguished love for his arsonist-father; A Rose for Emily, that hair-raising classic of a lady's decline to necrophilia; Wash, a magnificent portrait of a poor white who, after years of loyalty, rebels against...
From Miss Foley's anthology, he could argue that the U.S. is psyche-deep in insecurity, addicted to the subtle analysis of private anguish, decadent in social morality, and continually worried about the problem of racial minorities. From the Satevepost collection, he would get a picture of a U.S. incredibly complacent about its national virtues, convinced that romance always ends with a kiss of betrothal, and devoted to the notion that everything always turns out right...
...only cry of anguish came from the company's prima ballerina, part-Osage Indian Maria Tallchief (the fourth Mrs. Balanchine) who tore a ligament, was later replaced during an exit by Melissa Hayden. Maria would be out of action for at least a week, but even Maria could take comfort in the fact that the British were queuing up for seats for the rest of the company's six-week stay...