Word: anguishes
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...dubious course of action. Civil disobedience is a time-honored form of protest, but it is hard to see how the circumstances last week merited the illegal seizure of Harvard property. No matter how much the protesters claim to the contrary, they disrupted University business and caused undue mental anguish to the secretaries and other staffers in the building, who have nothing to do with Harvard's investment policy. Just what one wonders, did they hope to accomplish by the takeover? If it was to draw attention to their cause, then the action was pointless, since previous divestiture events this...
...decadence is the tragedy of Prince Hamlet, the sense of loss that teaches for our hearts and squeezes hard That Hamlet dies is a pity, that Hamlet indecisiveness reminds us of our own is painful, but that's all, folks. What makes pity into despair and pain into anguish and Hamlet, the proto-Dallas, into a classic is: Hamlet's tragedy, his failure to achieve what we feel could have been true greatness. As Fortinbras says in the final act, "For he was likely, had he been put on. To have prov'd most royally...
...colleagues as disparate as Philip Roth, Donald Barthelme and Susan Sontag--but not for the book's political messages. In fact, the tales were devoid of exhortation. Their main concern was human --mostly female--suffering. Her second book, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974), also evoked the anguish of women caught in what she called "the courts of kitchen drama." Wives were abandoned, mothers were overburdened by cherished babies, and grown children grieved for their parents fading away in institutions for the elderly...
...Secretary of Defense who calibrated America's growing involvement. Others were caught in the national spotlight for an awkward instant and have been trying to live it down ever since. Mary Ann Vecchio was a 14-year-old runaway from Florida captured by a photographer as she knelt in anguish over a dead student on the Kent State campus in 1970. For years her wanderings and missteps made news. Now married, she works as a bus girl in a Las Vegas casino...
...collection. The Pole salutes the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who perished in the Antarctic. It also celebrates Nabokov's favorite turf: terra incognita. The playwright liked to dream of butterfly-hunting trips to the Caucasus, Mount Elbrus, the Amazon. And he recalled "tingles of delight, of envy, of anguish (when) I watched on the television screen the first floating footsteps of man in the talcum of our satellite and how I despised those who maintained it was not worth all those dollars to walk in the dust of a dead world...