Word: anguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seizing power after the 1979 assassination of Park Chung Hee and winning the election of 1980, the President has yet to emerge as a truly popular leader. The explosion in Rangoon, no matter who was responsible, was bound to bring South Koreans closer together-if only, once again, in anguish...
...however, some make a noble effort to link these two strands of thought. Such is the case of Joseph Brill, the protagonist of Cynthia Ozick's latest novel. The Cannibal Galaxy. In large part, the success of the novel hinges on Ozick's ability to underscore the sense of anguish within her characters by sophisticated understatement. While Brill experiences travesties of monumental impact, he internalizes much of his anguish, ironically heightening its impact on the reader. More important, Brill's determination to carry out what he regards as his mission in the face of these obstacles endows him with...
...running-for no other reason, because she was running from the Americans who were going to kill her. And I killed her. And at the time I didn't even think twice about it." The "home front" hour is also full of painful recollection: it couples the public anguish over the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy with the private grief of veterans who gave back their war decorations as a gesture of protest and of families who gathered at fallen soldiers' gravesites. The final hours (the 13th is still being edited and will close...
...then persuades Aeolus, ruler of the winds, to blow up a storm that disperses Aeneas' escaping fleet. He comforts his drenched, surviving companions with words he does not believe: "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart,/ He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly/ Contained his anguish...
...president of KBS-TV, attributes the telethon's success in part to color television's widespread acceptance in South Korea, but the show's emotional impact and human drama are at least equally important. The on-the-air reunions are invariably heartrending, as years of anguish find release in paroxysms of joy and recognition. The program's hosts are often misty-eyed and speechless, the viewers moved to tears...