Word: angst
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...detours into history, biography, political science and theology cannot obfuscate the obvious. Americans are embracing evangelical religions because they feel spiritually and morally adrift in a society that judges values on a slippery curve of relativity. Secular intellectuals are also edgy, although they are likely to call the sensation angst and seek the blessings of a psychotherapist...
George Bush is right -- at least in part -- to be angry at critics who suggest he is skirting the brink of war to pump up his political standing and divert attention from the nation's economic angst. The real danger is far more subtle and menacing. It lies in the environment of the presidency itself. In the splendid isolation of the White House, the best and the brightest in crisp uniforms and Brooks Brothers pinstripes can, with purpose and convincing logic, expound the virtues of force to fill the voids of doubt that come with such crises. That happened...
...rote jokesters: like Robin Williams or Billy Crystal,they invent routines as they go along. Paula Poundstone, whose stand-up is a sprawl across a stool, ad-libs about 30% every night. When she was too broke to redeem her outfits from the dry cleaner's, she included the angst in her monologue: "It's like, the clothes are in jail. I go in every so often and say, 'Could I just see the pants?' " Reno goes directly to the Supreme Court and for the jugular. On the abortion ruling: "Soon a cop will be at the door saying...
...concede they are no longer the means by which people first learn about events. Therefore, he says, they must become more featurish, with life-style and entertainment moved up to the front page. The New York Times has already moved in that direction, playing up pop sociology and urban angst -- and the gray dowager will introduce color late next year. To compete with broadcasting's once-over-lightly approach, papers such as the St. Paul Pioneer-Press and Providence Journal have experimented with running a highlighted synopsis within some long stories...
Decide if it's really worth it. Do you really need to suffer the guilt, the angst and the deprivation that a long-distance relationship entails? Are you really really in love, like I-want-to-get-married love...