Word: torment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lived the lifestyle traditionally associated with their profession: dressed in black, they often went hungry and struggled to get their work published. It was at this time that Neruda wrote and was able to publish Twenty Poems of Love and an Ode on Desperation, a melancholy collection filled with torment and passion. Neruda would later refer to the poems as the expression of his love affair with Santiago...
...heart of the play, Chamberlain captures the self-lacerating torment of Shannon, and McGuire the innate goodness of Hannah, but both are some what out of their depth where the play itself becomes deeper in certain late scenes and speeches that border on mys tical transcendence...
Updike's latest book, Marry Me, is set in 1962, in pre-assassination America. As the protagonist suggests, it is "the twilight of the old morality, and there's just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in." The old confrontations--East vs. West, black vs. white--are reaching a head, and no one can know what the resolutions will...
...only the novice and insecure student who fought these creeping realizations. In fact it seems that the most successful, scholarly ones were particularly sensitive to the conflicts. In feeling that they were being asked to give up their Blackness, or redness or brownness or yellowness in exchange for this torment, their Blackness or whatever, assumed in many cases a new, strange and deeper meaning. Whatever it meant, many decided then and there that whatever happened, they would not give it up or reject all that had gone into its formation...
Updike's latest book, Marry Me, is set in 1962, in pre-assassination America. As the protagonist suggests, it is "the twilight of the old morality, and there's just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in." The old confrontations--East vs. West, black vs. white--are reaching a head, and no one can know what the resolutions will...