Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall suffers, too. from appearing, as it were, between perspectives-years after the scarehead moment of horror, when anguish nullifies distance, and too soon for historical tragedy, when art provides it. But form and perspective apart, The Wall is simply not well enough written. Adapter Millard Lampell gets no leverage into language; his words do not heighten or deepen or darken, are never laconic or poetic or terrible. Rather than quivering with a Whitmanesque "I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there." Lampell's lines come all too close to the sentimen tal and the stagy...
...scene of unforgettable anguish she finds herself incapable of helping a wounded soldier whose sweet-heart has left him. At the end of the war, though, despite her own suffering, she regains confidence in the demolished but existing world. And the hope that the suffering of war will have ended forever bring out a bittersweet courage in her which powerfully radiates this hope throughout the theater...
...Praise Famous Men, by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. A new edition of a classic account of sharecropper life in the mid-'30s, written with luminous love, raging anger, Christian anguish, and cascading torrents of poetry...
...flesh and spirit, dark and light. "Within me," he wrote, "are the dark immemorial forces of the Evil One, human and prehuman; within me too are the luminous forces, human and prehuman, of God-and my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met. The anguish has been intense...
Promenade on Saturday. Intense is a mild word for the anguish of every single character in The Last Temptation of Christ...