Word: anguish
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...keyed up during the intermissions, and drops you, purged and exhausted, at the end. . . . This opera could have been written in no other age, and it is one of the very few works of art that have seemed to me, so far, to have spoken for the blind anguish, the hateful rancors and the will to destruction of these horrible years...
...this to be done? By playing on "the profound anguish which grips all classes at the very thought of a possible coming war." The new Communist instrument, "which will characterize Communist activity throughout the present historical phase," was named the "Peace Front...
Drops of Blood. Anguish at Christie's has not always been confined to those who have been forced to sell. When Lord Nelson heard that a portrait of Lady Hamilton was to go on the block, he wrote a desperate note to his Emma: "But you are at auction. Good God! My blood boils." He succeeded in buying the picture (for ?300) before the auction day, and recorded happily that "I should have bought it . . . if it had cost me 300 drops of blood...
...once lived, daring anything, only to bring Jason pleasure, lives now, fearing nothing, only to give him pain. Just for the bitter anguish it will cause him, she can bring herself to murder their children...
Americanism, announced Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre in the Nation, is "a great external reality rising up at the entrance to the port of New York . . . and the daily product of anxious liberties. The anguish of the American confronted with Americanism is an ambivalent anguish, as if he were asking, 'Am I American enough?' and at the same time, 'How can I escape from Americanism...