Word: weltschmerz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skill. Tusenbach's paeans to labor can easily turn into sermonizing and his devotion to Irina into sickening self-abasement, but Clemenson doesn't self-dramatize the role. He transcends the limiting qualities of the part as Chekhov wrote it to create to subtle portrait of human suffering, weltschmerz...
...philosophers may have read Arthur Koestler, but they have certainly studied Karl Popper. Their philosophies, as described in your article, sound like Pop parodies of selected chapters from Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (first published in 1945), plus a generous admixture of disconcertingly old-fashioned Weltschmerz...
Just as I was considering building a home in Austria and putting in some annuals, our chores finally came to an end. Four weeks and umpteen transatlantic phone calls after it began, I returned home-richer, thinner, sporting a veneer of Weltschmerz and the ability to do a staggering imitation of R. Burton, which is pretty effective, if not particularly useful...
...Jean-Paul Sartre didn't say that, and it certainly wasn't Spiro T. Agnew. It was Dick Cavett. There is something curious about a $15,000-a-week entertainer who is afflicted with Weltschmerz instead of narcissism. Gloomily, he keeps wondering how it has come to pass that he is a big TV star? What's he doing there anyway...
...radical student protesters tend to act out the ideals of their politically liberal parents, who often approve the goals if not the tactics of their activist children. The biggest gap may be between different groups in the same generation. Collegians who pursue vocational courses like engineering seldom display the Weltschmerz that afflicts liberal arts students, who worry about the contrast between U.S. ideals and realities. This is even truer of youngsters who still go straight from high school to work, war and marriage?certified adults at 18 or 19. To be sure, the children of blue-collar workers increasingly diverge...