Word: angst
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...unearth the roots of this angst, a little history is in order...
...this national angst? The commonplace explanations--that at home Americans have given up on their government's ability to make life better for them, and abroad they see their nation humiliated in a world they can no longer control--just aren't enough. Political cynicism in America goes back at least as far as Ben Franklin, and American international omnipotence was always more the offspring of wishful thinking than of cold reality...
...have fallen under Mailer's spell in adolescence or continue to confuse Che Guevara with the brassy cliche of the Westerns," she wrote. In Mailer's world, "sex is war, war is sexual," and so women are the enemy, to be treated with violence as a solution for male angst...
...angst, plenty of angst. He knew he would be free soon, only to be trapped. All the tutors to see, sheepish explanations to be proffered, books he would have to skim, words he would have to write. More enemies than he had imagined. Brokaw blared, Pauley pouted. In Tehran, they shouted...
...regular season produced a modicum of excitement, with few pretensions to drama. The Celtics surged as Washington faded, the Western race heated up, Milwaukee evoked angst and the league's complexion received a much-needed face-lift...