Word: anguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vatican efforts to make amends included a public letter by the Pope on the anguish of the Holocaust. The process picked up at a vigorous working session in Rome the day before the papal meeting. Nine delegates of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations and nine Catholic representatives, mostly from the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, met for six hours. After explaining the Waldheim audience by simply restating the Holy See's position, the church team, headed by Johannes Cardinal Willebrands, took strategic steps to improve relations...
...these were picked up by a second generation of artists in the mid- 1970s, such as Rainer Fetting and Helmut Middendorf. By the mid-1980s the Neue Wilde, or new fauves, had become such a market bandwagon, so copious a fount of self-important rhetoric, that the rediscovered anguish of the postwar German soul ran some risk of joining the death of Little Nell as one of those things one could not read about without laughing...
Dorothy Herrmann's recent biography, S.J. Perelman: A Life, points out what any sensible reader already knows: humorists are not a sunny breed. They pick up their tribulations by the wrong end, and that provokes mirth. But after the audience leaves, the anguish remains. Perelman's boon companion and brother- in-law, Novelist Nathanael West (Miss Lonelyhearts), died young (36) in a car crash. Perelman never fully recovered from the blow, nor did his wife Laura, who descended into alcoholism. Many of his best letters deal obliquely with the disappointments he felt with his family and his work...
...seven books have sold 30 million copies worldwide, making him a multimillionaire and, until last fall, a star on the Tory speaking circuit. Whether he plans to re-enter politics remains uncertain. But many of his fans will surely be disappointed if his next book does not recycle the anguish -- and vindication -- of his most recent adventure...
...scenes with her, Linus Gelber, as Cadmos, the father of Agave and the founder of Thebes, has his most convincing moments. Indeed, these final moments of anguish do much to resurrect the drama as a whole...