Word: anguishes
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...starkly confront the twin problems of living and dying. Gielgud is himself dying--in the most undignified way imaginable, his colon having acquired a will of its own--as he composes the novel, his final attempt to resolve his tortured past. Struggling with mortality, he confronts at last his anguish over his wife's suicide, spending a sleepless night ordering his memories to achieve a form of aesthetic absolution...
...best measure of Jimmy Carter's seriousness in trying to do better is the man he named to be Mr. Energy, in charge of drawing up the Administration's plan. The President spent extraordinary time and anguish in selecting his top energy aide. Once he made his decision, he publicly labeled the appointment his "most important nomination." His choice: that tall, rumpled, totally unpretentious and incisively brilliant intellectual, James Rodney Schlesinger...
Just as the group's music started to coalesce, the marriages started to fall apart. The album reflects their personal anguish; its lyrics read like a copy of "True Confessions." Yet Rumours exhibits a pied beauty in its revelations, as it combines rock with pop, acoustic with electric, and solo with harmony. Listening to Fleetwood Mac is like attending an outdoor carnival; with such a variety of attractions there is something appealing for everyone...
Long after she left Shanghai, she remembered in anguish, she could not rid her mind of the personal enemies she had made there, for many had resurfaced in Yenan. They let her know that if she refused to comply with their propositions (which she did not spell out here, though they probably included being forced to work in politically compromising films), they would kill her. [By "politically compromising," Chiang Ch'ing meant emphasizing national unity with the Nationalists against the Japanese rather than class struggle against landlords and capitalists...
...Senate is considering a nearly identical code, and is expected to pass it next week-although the anguish may be even greater in that chamber. Since the Senators are generally in more demand for speeches and those who are lawyers are often of more value to law firms, their outside income is often higher than that of House members. Senator Hubert Humphrey, .for example, earned $81,000 in speaking engagements in one year, George McGovern $80,000. (Humphrey has never been secretive about such benefits; a sign in his Waverly, Minn., home proclaims: THE HOUSE THAT WIND BUILT...