Word: anguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dubus' stories turn on overt violence; anguish sometimes comes through less dramatic but equally effective means. Of these, the most common are infidelity and divorce. It is hard to tell who suffers more, the wandering parents or their children. Delivering follows two thoroughly upset brothers on their newspaper route the morning after their mother and father noisily called it quits. In the title novella, Finding a Girl in America, Dubus picks up the saga of Hank Allison that he began in two earlier volumes of stories. Experiments in consensual philandering ultimately broke up the Allison marriage. Now Hank...
...apart in small pieces." In The American Clock, premiering at the Charleston, S.C., Spoleto Festival, Arthur Miller is picking up the pieces of a national trauma. The shock waves of the '29 crash and the ensuing Great Depression stunned families, businesses and an entire society, engulfing them in anguish, fear, hopeless unemployment and abject despair. The tremors are still felt...
...Gulag are books, not paintings. Guernica's power flows from the contrast between its almost marmoreal formal system and the terrible vocabulary of pain that Picasso locked into it. It is shown at MOMA with all its preliminary studies, and to see Picasso developing these hieroglyphs of anguish, the horse, the weeping woman, the screaming head, the fallen soldier, the clenched hand on the sword, is to witness one of the supreme dramas of the injection of feeling into conventional subject matter that the century has to offer. Indeed, the effort was such that it carried him past...
...candidates, John Anderson sounded the most critical note. Said he: "This is a very painful thing for a country that is dispirited at the moment because of the protracted nature of the crisis. This is one more blow to the body politic in the sense that Americans will really anguish over the fact that we could not carry out the rescue successfully. Even failure in what was a valiant and justifiable effort carries with it a certain price. My admittedly superficial reaction is that, to some extent, the President has suffered political damage...
...WORLD is a circus ring. Archibald MacLeish's brilliant verse flows from the lips of two metaphysical actors who, perched high upon some ethereal stage, create their own sideshow, transforming one man's life into a carnival of anguish and despair. And all to prove a point. As they banter and rage, their tedious argument of insidious intent leads to an over-whelming question, the ultimate question...