Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Phase. Perched as they are beside the Iron Curtain, the West Germans are more sensitive to the subtle shifts in East-West relations than any other people in Europe. The least concession to Russia brings suspicions of a sellout. Hence West Germany's anguish last week at the transatlantic reports that the U.S. might trim down some of the six combat divisions on the Continent. SENSATIONAL U.S. PLAN WITH DRAWAL OF COMBAT TROOPS, shrieked Frankfurt's Abendpost. Asked Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung: THIS QUESTION CONCERNS US ALL: HOW MANY AMERICANS REMAIN IN GERMANY...
...daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides," says Francis Bacon. Every once in a while, he stops one and puts it down on canvas. Full of atrocity and anguish, they are the most consistently disturbing images in modern art today...
...seduction and murder of Holofernes, while real and imagined forms confront her to weave with their dance the tangle of her quiet doom. In Circe, Graham turns Ulysses' odyssey into an inner event, a flight of the imagination in which enchantment is only a prelude to bestiality, and anguish is the only alternative to evil...
...fact discovering a new world. And as the second world war drew closer, his old ferocity returned in the form of a raging compassion. The satire of A Man of Opinion, which induces a smile of scorn, was gone. His later paintings were to a large extent cries of anguish, not against a particular people but in behalf of all mankind. Ghostly "stickmen"-men that were no longer men-populated his world; and in his tortured oils, the hell that was always next to him burned with the intensity of a holocaust. Whereas he once demol ished individuals with...
Insider or Out. Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, by now a celebrated item in the canon of that highly praised writer, stuns the reader's mind with the intensity of its autobiographical anguish, evokes all the prophetic frenzies of the author's Harlem childhood and violently scorns-at the same time that it demands respect for-his abandoned pulpit. Baldwin is the insider looking out. Many people, and this includes all who read for enjoyment, will prefer Goyen-the outsider looking in. When he looks in at the theological thimbleriggers of the clapboard cathedrals...