Word: anguishes
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...flaw in Tarnopol is that as a book boy, he has "fallen in love with those complicated fictions of moral anguish" he keeps reading about. The depths of tragedy-that, Tarnopol thinks, is what an artist and a man must plumb. He yearns romantically to be a golden loser as well as a golden winner. Furthermore, he has a notion that one must prove one's manhood, not on the battlefields of war (like old-style machismo novelists) but in the combat zones of love. Nor is he fantasizing sexual conquest. For, paradoxically, what woman represents to Tarnopol...
...Radcliffe Class of '49 was brought up during the Great Depression, attended high school during World War II, faced the McCarthy "Red Scare" era right after graduation, and then confronted the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The women who attended Radcliffe in the late '40s had already faced great national anguish, but for most of the women, the frustrations of choosing a career and settling into a lifestyle which would satisfy themselves have been the real struggle...
...ranks of even last-ditch Southern supporters were far from solid. Republican Senator John Tower of Texas, a Nixon loyalist, was described by an aide as being in a "state of anguish." While still maintaining that there was insufficient evidence to impeach, the aide admitted: "This thing is closing in on the President pretty hard right now." Said a Southern Senator: "You have to realize that these Southern members of Congress are not going to let their conservative leanings sway them if there is a clear moral issue involved. They are talking about the gutter language indicated in the transcript...
NATURALLY, with PALC still inside Mass Hall, a few skeptics suspected that Bok's anguish over the wrongs of Angola and his determination to call attention to them were partly a matter of expediency. But nothing could have been further from the truth--for even today, more than two years later, Bok still has never taken the statement back. Of course, he still hasn't found an ideal way of fulfilling it, either. It might have seemed as though last month's coup by Portuguese officers displeased with their country's colonial policy, followed by widely-publicized continuing ferment...
...Knife, a freshly widowed father slips a much prayed-for knife under his small son's pillow to encourage him in the belief that prayers can be answered. Then, in anguish, he realizes that the boy is hopefully petitioning God for the return of his dead mother. In Something You Just Don't Do in a Club, a lawyer's starchy presumption of friendship and honor among his fellows sets him up to be cheerfully bilked by the club deadbeat. In Last Things, the longest and most affecting piece in the book, the indomitably optimistic and innocent...