Word: torment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with starvation, as are the 600,000 refugees along the Thai border, and the 250,000 Cambodians who worked for former regimes and now fear to register with the authorities. As a result they have no pa pers, no jobs, no ration cards and no food. Cambodia's torment never seems...
...character defects by attributing them to the appalling mockery his father made of parenting. Unlike other recent memoirs' writers, he actually comes to terms with his father's suffocating presence in his life. His exploration avoids morbidly picking at childhood scars; he aims to heal, not dredge up more torment. (His retrospective is infused with realism, tenderness untainted by excessive romaticism, and sadness devoid of self-pity.) Wolff knew when to close the door he pried open so forcefully in his preface...
...writer's self-sacrificial nature, insistent Jewish guilt, and sexual desire all torment Roth's hero, a young short story writer named Nathan Zuckerman. Nathan's dilemma concerns the purpose of his art: is his ultimate responsibility to himself or his Jewish heritage? Even the writer of the Bible must have paused to consider the personal and social consequences of his creation. In the end, Nathan, like Roth, chooses to write for himself and let the kleenex fall where they may. "There is obviously no simple way to be great," says Nathan...
Getting Out. This is a tale of an orphan of despair, released from jail but not from the cage of her younger mutinous self. Balanced between torment and valiance, Susan Kingsley, an actress of kinetic authority, exemplifies what Archibald MacLeish once said of poetry: "A poem should not mean...
IRAN A Nation Still in Torment More executions as the conflict between left and right widens