Word: anguishes
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...though sometimes brutal, works, highly recommended for the artsy crowd. Persona, directed by Ingmar Bergman and staring Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson, is a complex psychological drama that's somewhat of a modern classic. Pierrot Le Fou, directed by Godard and starring Belmondo, is another heady film about psychic anguish, and as always, Belmondo is a joy to watch...
...anguish for all concerned. Even before the prosecutors were ready to go to the grand jury, the substance of their investigation was leaked and thoroughly laid out in the press. The disclosures drew vehement criticism from several sources, including the American Civil Liberties Union, which is hardly an enemy of press freedom. The case was being tried in the press, it was said. Agnew was being denied the protection that liberals demand for ordinary muggers. That argument is persuasive in most situations. But the Agnew case was so extraordinary that different standards might apply. The official who could have succeeded...
...would have wanted it said, I believe, that she well knew the pressures of pride and vanity, the sting of bitterness and defeat, the gray days of national peril and personal anguish. But she clung to the confident expectation that men could fashion their own tomorrows if they could only learn that yesterday can be neither relived nor revised...
...part of the force now pushing Richard Nixon against the wall is the voice of a religion that he so assiduously cultivated over the years. The remarkable conversion to Christ of Charles Colson is considered a cloud of unknown proportions over Nixon's presidency. After weeks of inner anguish and a night of prayer, Colson confessed to a Watergate crime with which he had not even been charged. According to his spiritual mentor, Senator Harold Hughes, he will now tell all the truth he knows...
...complete history but as a corrective. The authors bow to the need for psychological studies. They are clearly aware that their statistical base is sometimes small and that their inferences about average well-being on the plantation is morally irrelevant to the outrage of slavery, the psychological anguish it caused, and the agonized voices of indi vidual slaves that have come down from the dark past. Yet the authors, generally moderate, are quite merciless when dealing with what they regard as the fumbling ignorance of Stampp, Elkins and Phillips on the subject of economics and statistics. The message is perfectly...