Word: anguishingly
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...think they're perhaps more embarrassed--and more anguished--about this than the Democrats are. Especially Democrats who did what they could to bring about a change in the administration in the election last year. They saw the need for change then, but Republicans and those who supported the administration in the last campaign, I'm sure, feel more of a sense of regret and anguish about it because they've been let down by their leader, by their candidate...
...with Paulus [Oct. 8]. But upon further reflection. I think her demythologizing will undoubtedly further public interest in a closer study of his writings, with the added insight that here was a philosopher-theologian whose wisdom sprang not from an antiseptic ivory tower but from the morass of personal anguish at being much too human...
...appearance of a President produces some enlightenment. But the frustrations were as great as the satisfaction, and in the end the session degenerated into a display of insult and bitterness. It was all beamed out to a people that already is in anguish...
This, then, is the university version of the high-school myth of "NO CONNECTIONS." It functions well: both to sedate the lives and to protect the conscience of the university-population from all knowledge, memory or recognition of the pain, the anguish and the devastation of those tens of thousand who live just beyond their reach and past their recognition. The fine, wood-panelled dining-hall on Quincy Street cleans the surface of the scholar's conscience with the polish of good manners, decent bearings, and appropriate understatement of his discontent. Clean silver, cool sherbet, slivers of lime and fabric...
...difficult to know how this conclusion is arrived at: by what criteria the scholar measures work, exhaustion, anguish, weariness or physical endeavor. The truth, of course, is different from that which these scholars advertise. Millions of poor people--black, poor-white and Spanish-speaking--work longer hours, at lower pay, in far less comfortable conditions, at labor many, many times less pleasant, return each night to homes far less congenial, in neighborhoods which are less pleasant and secure, finding their nourishment in food less wholesome, going to sleep at last to dreams less hopeful, waking again to lives far less...