Word: angst
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...that I disapprove of the numerous benefit concerts held for the everchanging array of causes of the week, because at least then the musicians are putting their money where their vocal chords are. I'm just sick of everyone bandying about his buffet of attitudes and wearing his artistic angst like some neo-revolutionary red badge of oppression. Because, when you get right down to it, what do wealthy white men know about oppression...
...many American high school and college students, the appeal of this land of vaulting ideals and valued indolence is seductive. Surveying their own daily diet of angst, fetid air and befouled shores, students' common response is "When can I move there...
...lights, electricity, the possibility of night baseball, that's taking this whole tradition angst...
...with one of his most daring scores. From the arresting opening chords that symbolize the lurking spacemen -- an alien harmonic system that makes sense to them but not us -- to the striking stretch of C-major that underpins poor M.'s longings for a girlfriend, this primal scream of angst surges and soars on an electric current of inspiration...
Dukakis could have spared himself some angst by calling Jackson before 8 a.m. Tuesday. Even allowing for breakfast and a shower, he had the time. Was his failure to do so deliberately designed to show his frustration with what he perceived as Jackson's perpetual grandstanding? More likely it was that the Dukakis inner circle did not want to give the image of kowtowing to Jackson. But Jackson, as Mario Cuomo points out, "is not like the other defeated candidates. Nobody has an influence with 7 million voters like his influence with his people. Why must Dukakis treat him differently...