Word: angst
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...possible to love any human being without being torn limb from limb? No one was ever made wretched in a brothel; there need be nothing angst-forming about the sexual act. Yet. . . when sexual emotion increases to passion, then something starts growing which possesses a life of its own and which, easily though it can be destroyed by ignorance and neglect, will die in agony and go on dying after it is dead...
...Soviets have been only too eager to do so, expertly exploiting the homegrown angst and ambivalence in Europe. Much of the neutralism and anti-Americanism have been concentrated among the younger generation. Unlike their elders, they have no personal recollection of Americans as liberators of Western Europe or of Soviets as occupiers of Eastern Europe. Many of them have grown up taking their freedom, their prosperity and their American-backed security for granted...
Former Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell, 41, last week went through the angst of being a rookie again. He had been recruited by the Eastman Philharmonia to read selected passages from the speeches of Martin Luther King to a new score written with Stargell in mind by Composer Joseph Schwantner, 39. "When you play Carnegie Hall, the knees tend to knock," said Stargell. But last week he gave a great performance in a career marked by great performances. For the old ballplayer, his debut was one from the heart. "Once, I remember we went to a drive-in movie...
JOAN MICHELIN SILVER'S Chilly Scenes of Winter is not an exuberant movie. The location is Salt Lake City, and the climate is pure drizzle. The film, however, is more than just a standard outpouring of cosmic angst. The controlled tone, consistently strong acting, and the convincing--at times hilarious--dialogue make for an intelligent, enjoyable movie...
...image of Schnabel himself as a young Prince of Aquitaine, albeit a Texan one, sleepless with memory and disillusion, contemplating the wrenched spare parts of history: "These fragments I have shored against my ruins." In short, it is pretentious in a blustering all-American way, and through its angst one catches the glint of a beady little eye. But at least Schnabel does not lack industry: his current exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York is his eighth gallery show in six years...