Word: anguish
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...amateurs of the 18th Century manner. His published pieces yield the vivid image of an Old Etonian still alive and kicking amid the European rubble, somberly turning the pages of psychiatric journals, reaching for the odes of Horace, and composing, with a groan, clever paragraphs to keep his modern anguish under classic control...
Gonna Walslca, Polish ex-soprano and husband collector (total fortune of her first four: $125,000,000), got rid of her sixth, Yogi Theos Bernard, but not without costs and regrets. He had provoked her in many ways, said she. First, he had caused her great mental anguish by insisting on living alone with his father in the "penthouse of the gods" (which she had bought for him), then he had tried to force money out of her by1) invoking Yoga powers, 2) "well-nigh choking and strangling me," 3) suing for separate maintenance because of a rheumatic heart which...
...loved him and left him (he's a sweet boy, she reckons, but what good's Cupid without a bank balance?). By page 47, avid Roger has tracked Morina to the red-light district in Virginia City; and by page 60 he is suffering pangs of anguish at seeing his beloved stand up nude on a piano and offer herself up for auction ("she never looked more beautiful or more horrible"). But by page 174, Roger has wised up to the way of the world: he has forgotten all about being a Confederate spy; he has learned...
...dropper when he was ready to put some lotion in a child's eye, he angrily grabbed a pen from his desk, flicked the lotion in, permanently scarring the eyeball. Dr. Wilson notes that his decline was probably hastened by physical causes as well as mental anguish. It was a steady decline; the end came...
History and Ruins. "I like New York. I have learned to like it. . . . Nowhere have I felt more free than in the midst of its crowds. . . . Here you may suffer the anguish of loneliness, but not that of crushing defeat. In Europe we . . . become attached to a cluster of houses, are captivated by a little corner of a street; and we are no longer free. But hardly have you plunged into New York than you are living completely in the dimensions of New York. . . . You will never be held by any of its streets, for none of them is distinguished...