Word: anguishingly
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...understand why the Negroes of Watts rebelled 'Then shy do we need a devil theory to explain the rebellion of the South Vietnamese.' Can we understand the oppression in Mississippi, or the anguish that our Northern ghettoes makes epidemic? Then why can't we see that the proper human stuggle is not with communism or revolutionaries, but with the social desperation that drives good men to violence, both here and abroad?" Carl Oglesby, former president of SDS. March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam, November...
From this blunt and colloquial beginning, the piece builds to a Twirlers epiphany of mystic anguish...
...Dutch Shea Jr. get to be such a burnt-out case? There is the immediate anguish caused by the death of his adopted daughter Catherine. "Cat" was dismembered by an I.R.A. bomb in a London restaurant. Shea also fears the impending blast of an audit. He has misused funds from estates he was supposed to oversee. Fear and shame are magnified because his father was a lawyer who hanged himself in prison, where he was serving time for embezzlement...
Petersen's success in drawing the viewer into the characters' physical setting creates a sense of empathy for their mental anguish even if they are somewhat caricatured. The heroically low-keyed captain (Jurgen Prochnow) combines the steely bright blue eyes of an American astronaut with the scruffy beard and weathered skin of an old salt and leads a crew including an ever-dependable lieutenant, a neophyte war correspondent and more than one boy in love...
...Arabs of the region. And while he has on mistakes made by the Israeli government, he is equally critical of the inflexibility and militance of Arab leaders. Halabi criticizes Israel not with the haughty condemning tones used by the likes of Anthony Lewis, but with the anguish of a patriot who sees his country violating many of its most cherished ideals...