Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Carolina, Harris suffered one jolting defeat: he ran for the editorship of the Daily Tar Heel and lost by three votes out of 3,000. He still talks about that defeat with a trace of anguish: "It was a heartbreaking election. It was the first and last time I ever ran for office." Harris learned his trade during nine years in the Elmo Roper polling organi zation. When he departed in 1956 to found Louis Harris & Associates, he took four Roper clients along with him - an unkindness that Elmo Roper has never forgiven. Today the Harris organization grosses roughly...
John Mills plays the hero with anguish and skill...
...were born too late to be part of the decade of treason. Thus the weakest and least sympathetic portion of Arthur M. Schlesinger's Age of Roosevelt is his treatment of the American Left; Schlesinger is too scarred himself, too much involved in the post World War II liberal anguish to see the radicals of his period clearly...
These lines were written by the most talented of The Movement's poets, 40-year-old Philip Larkin (The Less Deceived). Larkin has the happy faculty of rescuing the special tenderness or peculiar anguish of small experiences that everyone has had but no one has bothered to examine. At his best, he is a dwindled Wordsworth in whose ear the ghost of Rilke sometimes whispers. In this little poem, one of Larkin's subtlest, it whispers of-death...
Ross, by Terence Rattigan, presents an absorbing theory of T. E. Lawrence as a man both raised and racked by his own will. John Mills plays the hero with anguish and skill...