Word: anguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bewildered foreigners. Moscow believed it was a trick to destroy detente. The rest of the world had difficulty grasping what all of the agony was about. Foreigners tended to watch the spectacle in the way that an agnostic beholds a believer who is suffering a bout of spiritual anguish; the ordeal seems impressive, perhaps, but unnecessary, odd and even self-indulgent. "The French never understood why the Americans got so upset over Watergate,' French Historian François Furet said last week. "The French in particular and Europeans in general do not have a moral conception of politics...
...unconditional." But his tone was paternal rather than condemnatory. Though the church refuses Communion to those in second marriages, John Paul spoke to the divorced with sympathy: "Christ himself, the living source of grace and mercy, is close to all those whose marriage has known trial, pain or anguish. We must reach out with love, the love of Christ, to those who know the pain of failure in their marriages...
Hinckley's well-to-do family in Colorado tried to help him but without success. His mother Jo Ann testified to years of anguish, noting that her son's depressed condition had worsened dramatically in the fall of 1980. In October the family considered placing him in a mental hospital; a psychiatrist said no, urging the Hinckleys to persuade their son to accept responsibility for himself. John's parents gave him an ultimatum: by March 1, 1981, he was to have a job. Instead, he left home; a week later he called from New York, incoherent...
...understand why the Negroes of Watts rebelled 'Then shy do we need a devil theory to explain the rebellion of the South Vietnamese.' Can we understand the oppression in Mississippi, or the anguish that our Northern ghettoes makes epidemic? Then why can't we see that the proper human stuggle is not with communism or revolutionaries, but with the social desperation that drives good men to violence, both here and abroad?" Carl Oglesby, former president of SDS. March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam, November...
From this blunt and colloquial beginning, the piece builds to a Twirlers epiphany of mystic anguish...