Word: anguishingly
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When Robert Frost was given an honorary degree at Oxford University a few years ago, he stopped in Ireland to receive the same honor from the University of Ireland. Frost met Austin Clarke, earlier a very promising Irish poet who, through too many years of personal anguish, had lost his touch. But Frost was anxious to talk with Clarke, and taking him aside, they spent several hours together, Clarke later said that Frost asked him what kind of verse he wrote and uncertain of the proper answer he blurted out. "I load myself with chains...
...couple, driving them to the hospital, and translating for them. It would get me in the pit of my stomach when I'd walk up the stairs to their apartment and the paint would come off in my hands. It is a very emotional experience for me. The anguish involved, the frustrations, the anger--the thrills." In contrast to Wong, whose efforts have covered the spectrum of social problems in Chinatown, Janet Moy '75 has concentrated her work on the health problems of the community. Last month she was elected to the executive board of the Boston Community Health Center...
...understood disease. Those afflicted by it usually have to fight it on their own and with inadequate weapons. Journey is the story of the Massies' struggle, which so far has been successful. The chapters written by Robert tend to deal with technical details. Suzanne concentrates on her personal anguish and the years of caring for Bobby. If she sometimes seems to overwrite, the book proves how thoroughly she has earned the right to do so. Her descriptions of the emotional and physiological effects of hemophilia on exhausted parents, as well as children, are heartrending. Its portrait of Bobby Massie...
...impediments they face are not those of a world created by another for them. Men are rather the victims of their own world; they are alienated by conditions they created themselves. This is why the first existentialists were necessarily men: it is impossible to experience the dread and anguish of having total responsibility to define one's essential self until one in fact has this responsibility, which is itself the corollary of total freedom. It is possible that a feminine existentialism is emerging, marking a new fold in the female imagination. Indeed, as more and more women today are learning...
GENERAL WILLIAM WESTMORELAND, 61, former commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam, retired in Charleston, S.C.: "It was heartbreaking, but it was not surprising. I've gone through the anguish of seeing Viet Nam deteriorate bit by bit. I must say the process has been more rapid than I thought would be the case. It was a sad day in the glorious history of our country. But elements in this country have been working for this end. We failed. We let an ally down. But it was inevitable after Congress pulled the rug out from under the President...