Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congratulations to the artist who did the cover portrait of Bishop Pike [Nov. 11]. It is a veritable picture of the modern Everyman, torn by the anguish of contradictions of his own making. Pike as your artist indicates represents not an individual...
...might as well live" is the way men and women normally feel-whatever their present misery. "There is no conceivable human situation," says Dr. Yolles, "which is unendurable or hopeless enough to drive a healthy man to death-neither mental anguish nor concentration camp torture nor bankruptcy." Viewing the suicidal tendency as a kind of mental illness, Yolles predicts that attacking it on a national scale will lower the U.S. suicide rate in a few years...
...DELICATE BALANCE, by Edward Albee, has echoes of Pinterish menace and Cocktail Party elegance as it mutedly discusses the absence of love and the anguish of aloneness. The characters fill and refill their whisky glasses, but the play is empty of thought or drama...
Gardening is regarded as the province of nice ladies and retired gentlemen, but it is well to remember that it is also a primal human activity. In a parable of human anguish raised to an existential level, Nigel Dennis pursues Voltaire's suggestion that man should look to his own garden, and shows in a nightmare vision what it would be like to be the last gardener-one man alone, devoted to growing things in a mechanized military world...
...wife of U.S. Navy Lieut. Thomas Massie had left the party early, alone. Later, Massie went looking for her at the home of a friend, but she was not there. Massie then phoned his own house, and his wife answered. In a voice so distorted by anguish that it was scarcely recognizable, Thalia Massie cried: "Come home at once! Something terrible has happened...