Word: angst
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...favor is the broad consensus that exists on the most urgent economic remedies. Political professionals cannot understand why Reagan has not put his best skill to use and gone to the airwaves, outlining the future, soothing the markets, sharing a sense of purpose and direction to ease the economic angst that is rattling the world economy. Says Jody Powell, who served as Jimmy Carter's press secretary: "Reagan's legacy will be judged by what happens to the economy. That ought to be his absolute No. 1 priority...
...film's success is Barbara Sukowa, who plays the radical politician with a proper mixture of courage, furor and angst. Sukowa won the best actress award at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film...
Nevertheless, there is a great deal more to Berlin art than the production of industrial-strength angst. The city's rebirth as a major center of late modernism is now an accomplished fact. In this show -- the first attempt by a U.S. museum at a conspectus of the subject -- Curator McShine has done a good job of setting out, in samples rather than full packages (55 artists are represented), the peculiar mix of political intelligence, sharp irony, antic humor, mythic yearnings, brusque self-doubt and curiously facile pictorial effects that helped define Berlin's cultural temper before Nazism and that...
...counterculture desired a guru, and here he was in the flesh. By 1975, after the establishment in Boulder of the Naropa Institute, a liberal arts college, his imprimatur was everywhere. One could stick pins in a map, connect the dots and, with apologies to Amtrak, call it the Angst Express. The confused came to be made sound...
...close in time to assess Bernstein's compositions accurately. His music's eclecticism and its peculiarly American-sounding angst are qualities that have endeared Bernstein to his listening public and alienated him from his critics. Bernstein, along with Aaron Copland, is the most performed contemporary American composer...