Word: angst
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...Sexual angst is not the only way to the heart of the market. Orphaned Ponyboy Curtis, 14, and his greaser pals, for instance, are too busy fighting to date girls. In S.E. Hinton's bestselling The Outsiders, Ponyboy and his hoods battle Socs (Socials), who cruise their mean streets in Mustangs and madras shirts looking for loners. The results: manslaughter, murder, despair. But out of the rubble of class structure, sensitivity rises triumphant. Says Ponyboy: "What kind of a world is it where all I have to be proud of is a reputation for being a hood, and greasy...
...philosopher. Richard Nixon always wanted to be a sportswriter. If one considers these fantasies together, they seem to have got weirdly crossed. It is Nixon who should have been the police spy. On the other hand, Kierkegaard would probably have made an extraordinarily depressing sportswriter (Fear and Trembling: The Angst of Bucky Dent...
...want to transfer to other courses, that is why. Everyone does, except for the science people. You do not like the books. You do not like the instructor. You do not like anybody, and you are filled with existential angst. You never signed up for "Religion and Politics in Ukraine Since 1917" in the first place; why are you there? Does man have free will? What is the cute girl across the hall taking? Law and Pyschology"--why does it draw you closer, entice you? It is irresistable...
...left of the room, Dan Daley, New York City born and raised, at 28 younger than Daniels by 17 years, and at least 75 pounds lighter. A singer-songwriter with a solid dose of urban angst who has been plugging away in the music business for over a decade, with little to show for it but a cassette full of promising tunes...
...Lily Tomlin!" Lily Tomlin? In her upcoming television special, Tomlin eerily metamorphoses into Purvis Hawkins, "the Messiah of Soul." Purvis is one of three new characters who will join Tomlin's company of creations. The other newcomers: Holly Oneness, a burned-out '60s folk singer, and Agnes Angst, a manic-depressive deeply into the "heavy mental" new wave sound...