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...could be spared psychological upsets. His studies have shown that advance screening can identify those patients most likely to react badly to open-heart surgery. A complete description of what the patient can expect when he emerges from anesthesia, something few doctors now bother to give, could ease emotional anguish and make his recovery more rapid...
...play insanity; few play it well. O'Toole begins where other actors stop, with the unfocused gaze, the abrupt bursts of frenzied high spirits and precipitous depressions. Funny, disturbing, finally devastating, O'Toole finds his way into the workings of madness, revealing the anger and consuming anguish at the source. Jay Cocks
Mary McCarthy brings a special sensibility to her journalism about the war in Viet Nam. Behind the smart bitchiness of The Group there is a complicated spirit in anguish over what she now calls "this miserable country." As an expatriate, she sees the U.S. in sharp focus, remarking on incongruities that a resident takes for granted. Thus she recognized-and skillfully skewered -American bungling in Viet Nam (1967), though her later Hanoi (1968), likewise based on firsthand reporting, suffered from a Lincoln Steffens I-have-seen-the-future-and-it-works naiveté. In Medina, her third short book...
...less boyish than he used to, speaking in driving cadences reminiscent of his brothers and somewhat of F.D.R. His rhetoric seemed rotund in comparison to McGovern's prairie tones. "For there is a new wind rising over the land," he said. "In it can be heard many things, promises, anguish, hopes for the future, echoes of the past, and our most cherished prayer, America, America, God shed his grace on thee." In an insistent litany, he invoked the deeds of past Democratic Presidents?Jackson, Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy and even Lyndon Johnson...
Josie, with the power invested in her part by O'Neill's personal anguish, gives him the forgiveness he so desperately seeks and allows him to sleep on her breast until the dawn, beautifully lit, glows with Jim's new-found peace. Absolved of his sin and thus freed from torturous guilt, he leaves Josie forever, able to die as he has died spiritually long before. The walking ghost passing from night to dawn is a familiar figure in O'Neill's work, but nowhere is he so effective a presence as in Moon for the Misbegotten...