Word: anguishingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nameless dread dogged him so closely that he could not work. Finally, his anguish became so acute that he decided to kill himself. So relieved was he by suicide's promise of deliverance that he broke down and wept, waking his sleeping wife, who learned for the first time how close to the edge he had gone and who helped start him on the road to recovery...
...lost. But that was not true, he insisted, in South Viet Nam. Indeed, battlefront reports from both nations (see next page) supported the White House view that sharp distinctions exist between the two troubling situations. Unfortunately, they also made clear that for all those involved, including the U.S., more anguish and perhaps more difficult choices wait ahead...
...Real Anguish. Factory workers adjust best of all. They are used to many bumps in life, and they fatalistically accept layoffs. Explains Kiev: "The factory worker has more cynicism, more skepticism about the company than the executive. He feels that the company owes him something. When he is laid off, he rationalizes: 'Those sons of bitches at the company.' And he goes out to mow lawns and fend for himself...
Even blue-collar workers, however, often disguise the real anguish of their joblessness from friends and their own children. Birdie Gaston, 62, who lives in Harlem, was laid off as a packager for Alfred Dunhill, Inc. a week before Christmas. "I brood a lot, and I hurt inside," she says, but she has attempted to hide those feelings from her relatives. She feels "ashamed" that she has to collect unemployment compensation ($63 a week). Most of all, she misses the job. "When I am working, I feel 24 years old. When I am not working, I feel...
King's piece almost looks good next to the article by Robert Coles. Coles's article on Mexican Americans in Texas is dominated by self-conscious anguish over the abused Chicanos, offering more insight into his own psyche than into Chicano life, which he reduces to a grim picture of economic and political oppression. The history of Mexican-Americans in Texas is a tragic, depressing story; discrimination and poverty still plague most Chicanos. Those conditions deserve considerable attention, especially from Texans, who find them easy to forget or ignore. But Coles fails to examine the complex roots of such conditions...