Word: anguishes
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...President's support among P.O.W. wives and parents. Following Hanoi's latest proposal, which seemingly offers release of the men imprisoned in North and South Viet Nam in return for total U.S. withdrawal by year's end, a split is developing among the families. To the anguish of both sides, it is close to dividing them on the means to their basic goal: bringing the men home...
When the shooting stopped, Ann-Margret's anguish did not. Stone pro that she is, she went ahead with a four-week run in Las Vegas. Pain lent a darker resonance to her voice and presence, even in moments of razzmatazz. Pain came through wild and pure in her song about Marilyn Monroe: Does Anybody Out There Love Me? At the end of the run, nerves shot and viruses acting up, she was rushed to a hospital...
...scenes in which Peter's ideas are tested by experience. In a hilarious initial encounter with retired Kansas schoolteachers on the boat train, Peter learns the depths of his own anti-Americanism. Later a wretched Thanksgiving spent at the home of a U.S. general confronts him with the anguish of American inertia in pursuing un-American aims in Viet Nam. When he retreats to Italy at Christmas to salve his soul among the airy splendors of the Sistine Chapel, his democratic principles are tried again. Everywhere he finds "dark serried groups reminding him of flocks of starlings...
Some do not want a job at all. Others are much more interested in working toward a career that fulfills rather than pays. In any case, their new values keep them from suffering as much anguish as previous generations would have endured in a similar situation. "In the '50s and early '60s, most students' faith in careerism was nearly as tenacious as their faith in the American dream," says Edward Dreyfus, a counselor at U.C.L.A. "Today, undergraduates tend to view a job as only part of their total person. Their identity is not going to be contingent upon their employment...
...Part of the outcry and the anguish over William Galley's conviction for multiple murders at My Lai came from the sense of many Americans that the young lieutenant was only a scapegoat. Punish sergeants, lieutenants, perhaps captains, but let the big brass alone. The Nixon Administration and the U.S. Army are troubled and embarrassed by that sentiment. Partly as a result, there is one big figure who is unlikely to get away without a murder charge...