Word: angst
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...euphemism for yet another angst-producing "moral defeat"--quietly killed any dreams of post-season play that may have survived last Wednesday's crushing sudden-death loss to Dartmouth. Now 6-10-3 in ECAC Division 1 play (7-12-3 overall, in 13th place, five spots out of the playoffs, Harvard can finish at best with an 8-10-3 record if they knock off St. Lawrence and Clarkson on the road this weekend...
...Wall is a lavish, four-sided dredge job on the angst of the successful rocker, his flirtations with suicide and losing bouts with self-pity, his assorted betrayals by parents, teachers and wives and his uneasy relationship with his audience, which is alternately exhorted, cajoled and mocked. None of the dynamic exaltation of the Who and their fans for the Pinkies. To Waters, the audience is just another barrier, another obstacle to his exquisitely indelicate communion with his inner being. "So ya/ Thought ya/ Might like to go to the show," he sneers at some hapless...
Mavis Gallant. The name has a romantic ring to it, suggesting a pretty girl, sunlight on English countryside and happy endings, possibly during the Battle of Britain. But no modern writer casts a colder eye on life, on death and all the angst and eccentricity in between. A Canadian, Mrs. Gallant has lived in France since World War II. There she produces her lapidary long stories and an occasional dazzling short novel, usually set in Europe. Her work appears regularly in The New Yorker. Canada seems about to give her the Governor General's Literary Award...
Conference of Mayors, which periodically brings together some of its members for a three-day immersion in expertise, exhortation and empathy, has shrewdly decided that controlling angst can be as important to a mayor's success as drafting municipal budgets...
...really go any place between the book's first page and its last. But the two, who consume enough alcohol to drown W.C. Fields, manage to talk a good life. Their conversations, about sex and the lack of it, marriage, divorce and children, and Roman Catholic angst, ring as true as quarters on a bartop...