Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conducted by Hermann Scherchen; Westminster). Put a few dozen voices anywhere under a choral director and they're apt to belt out the rousing final chorus of this oratorio; but its starkly eloquent arias are seldom heard. Singing Beethoven's Jesus, Tenor Peerce builds to a marvelous anguish, which unfortunately tends to increase when he is coping with high notes...
Albee writes that "every honest work is a personal, private yowl, a statement of one individual's pleasure or pain ... I hope that it transcends the personal and the private, and has something to do with the anguish of us all." If you haven't seen these plays yet, they are worth viewing, even in inferior productions. For Albee's private yowl is rightly and readily translated into a public alarm. By catapulting us with his vision of the world, Albee dares us to change this vision: to feel, and to love, and to care...
Feiffer's stylized fairy tale can be read, some of the time, as light summer fiction. It is studded with scenes of cheerfully skin-deep satire and divertingly chuckleheaded dialogue. But occasionally Feiffer's laughter comes close to a stifled cry of anguish-in a way that has not been matched since Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts took to heart the troubles reflected in his advice-to-the-lovelorn column, and was destroyed by acute compassion...
Messkirch is thus easy prey for the Nazis. Indifferent for most of the war, he suddenly gets word that his only son, Otto, has been killed in ambush in France. In his anguish, he turns for guidance to the only philosophy he knows-the Nibelungen lore. "Only blood could atone for the blood of my son," he concludes from his primitive reading, and this judgment is confirmed by the Nazis: "The principle of revenge permeated every aspect of our collective struggle in the Third Reich. Vengeance was the reason why our flying bombs thundered over the enemy's territory...
...laws by those who can afford it. If New York State had a proper marriage and divorce code, neither Governor Rockefeller nor his first wife [who got a Nevada divorce on the ground of extreme mental cruelty] nor his present one [who got hers in Idaho for "grievous mental anguish"] would have had to acquiesce in a course of action which is at variance with the laws that, as Governor, he is required to execute...