Word: anguishes
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...heart of the Lady's daughter Julia. Fuller's original songs about the crime that may or may not be committed are so thoroughly entertaining that Sable's dangling at the end of Lady Beatrice's necklaces becomes nothing less than enjoyable and Softly Stealing a cause not for anguish but for delight...
Emerson is struggling against something deeper than other people's forgetfulness, however. She is herself trapped by her inability to move beyond the war, and at points in Winners and Losers her tone becomes a little holier-than-thou when she writes of her own anguish. The book is an effort to exorcise her own memories, as well as an effort to jog those of other people; to this extent, Wills's comment is a fair one. But the book she has written is not, as Wills suggests, ineffectual protest; it is a powerful reminder of the agony caused...
...reasons the Vietnam war is a more horrible episode than other colonial wars, than, say, Korea, is less clear. The lessons are left vague. Perhaps that vagueness, that inability to resolve in her own mind the meaning of her experience, gives a hint to the causes of Emerson's anguish, but it doesn't help the reader understand how to avoid future Vietnams...
...death. Stage Director Dexter can take credit for that too, although he has been given some splendid singing actresses to work with - Régine Crespin, Shirley Verrett, Betsy Norden, Maria Ewing. As Blanche, the rich-voiced Ewing emerges as a genuine comer in her blend of inner anguish and, at the end, heroic resolve. In the pit, French Conductor Michel Plasson shapes the music with enough loving deftness to underscore the fact that Dialogues is one of the few masterpieces of 20th century opera...
Though the three pivotal characters are terminal cases, they live in cottages where their families and lovers can be with them. Both the dying and the living share a common ground of anguish...