Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disturbingly ambiguous: lonely and unable to communicate, he becomes increasingly certain of his own ineptness. But one feels that successful communication with these parishioners would only insure eventual damnation; the failure of his mission cannot, ultimately, be called a tragic one. The curate's confusion leads him to anguish; the viewer's confusion is unresolved...
...grainy 1938 film, mechanical difficulties, an occasionally over liberal adaptation, and a few ludicrous subtitles are no competition for the beauty with which Gorky's suffering Russia is presented. The anguish and the frustration comes through, along with the love of people and country. Particularly true to the author's style is the affection with which the camera almost caresses the land, the sky, and the waters of the Volga...
...denial, the amalgam of Huck and his raft separated by Thomas Moore's "Lolly Rookh" from the black pristine love found in the shoals of the frozen Charles!" Diana Trilling writes, "...disconcerted by the misconception of the tragic hero (ine?) and...foundering in the slough of my husband's anguish, I found it lovely." Norman Mailer's criticism is more direct: "...in Cambridge it always stinks--like sweat...
...Critics' Committee. Brought up in Los Angeles, the son of an impoverished Negro family, McGill blossomed into the best big basketball player ever developed in a California high school. But to the anguish of the University of California's Coach Pete Newell, McGill's high school grades were as bad as his basketball was good. To better the chances of shoe-horning Billy into Cal, Newell imported him to San Francisco for his last high school term. McGill's grades rose, but not enough. When he found that he would have to prep at a junior...
...Accra rumor had it that Nkrumah intended to let both papers die and to replace them in a year or so with a less propagandistic daily printed in the $4,500,000 printing plant that the East Germans have promised to build for him near Accra. In undisguised anguish, the Times and News printed appeals to their declining readership. "Don't ever forget the debt you owe to this gallant paper," implored the News. "To forget it is to betray yourself and Africa. Read the valiant Evening News and keep yourself in perfect tune with the spirit of militant...