Word: anguishingly
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...year has not erased all of the hatred that flared into gunfire on the campus of Ohio's Kent State University, or assuaged the anguish of the victims' families. On the anniversary of the tragedy, Pittsburgh's Arthur Krause cited a poem as best conveying the "essence and spirit" of his daughter Allison, one of the four students slain by Ohio National Guardsmen. Excerpts from the poem, written by Krause's friend, Manhattan Insurance Broker Peter Davies...
...threatened when one is not directly involved. Few of us will go into the military, fewer will ever see Vietnam. Our towns are not occupied by foreign troops, nor are we threatened with imminent death from the sky. All of us are concerned, some of us even feel periodic anguish over America's role in this war, But who among us is devoting any real energy towards ending the destruction of a people and a land? We spend more time and energy and thought about papers and hour exams than we do about our bothers and sisters in Southeast Asia...
...drunken older brother, James Jr., Stacy Keach lacks something of Jason Robards' Broadwayish flamboyance but inflects the role with more guilt-racked anguish. James Naughton has the same difficulty that Bradford Dillman had in the original in suggesting the steely resolve that the tubercular young Edmund (really Eugene O'Neill himself) must have possessed to wrest his genius from these stricken souls...
...They read about numbers and violence in the newspapers. Like the body counts from Vietnam. however, such reports pale in comparison to direct experience. In the past week these congressmen have been directly confronted by veterans, many of them crippled, asking why and pointing the finger of blame and anguish. The re-actions were visible on the congressmen's faces...
...overworked Nazi parallel, what if it had been Hitler? Would sitting quietly and giving him the finger be an adequate expression of our revulsion and rage? In many of us, representatives of current American policy in Indochina, the Third World and in our own backyard arouse no less fury, anguish and despair than Adolph. No one was physically prevented from speaking, and the First Amendment, as far as I know, does not guarantee the right to be heard. At worst the anti-war people can be accused of allowing their emotions to lead them to a stupid tactic which might...