Word: angst
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...wife and Dorelia the patient mistress, posing among their hordes of children in long columnar skirts and peasant shawls beside Romany caravans. But the 20th century was for John merely the unfortunate bracket of time in which he happened to live. He shared neither its energies nor its Angst. He saw modernity as a threat, an encroachment of "terrible simplifiers" on the sturdy, randy freedom of the gypsy artist. "I feel myself personally outraged and assailed by a horrible and inhuman monster," he bombinated in 1908, "a monster begotten by brute Stupidity upon terrified Ignorance, weaned...
...appear to be on ice skates. Misha seems about to fall over backward at times-a mime performance that Marcel Marceau might envy. Perhaps his greatest tour de force so far is Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mart. The ballet is a cartoon of existential angst, but, leaping over bed, chair and table, Baryshnikov turns it into a young man's rage at mortality...
Whether they call it the blues, a case of the hoo-ha's or "free-floating angst," nearly everyone has wrestled with depression. Cures are various, and likely to be temporary: a cold shower, a new hat, pills, a chat with a doctor or a friend, or simply repeating to oneself that "tomorrow is another day." Many people push a burden of inexplicable sadrtess through half a lifetime like Sisyphus with his famous stone, and try to believe that they are happy just the same. But when Author Percy Knauth fell into a depression, none of these things worked...
...pleased, since he acknowledges a literary debt to such sources as The Children 's Reader, the annual reports of corporations, and R.D. Laing. What will he do next? He does not know, though he would like to do it in three years, if possible. Then the Slocum-Heller angst sets in. "I am afraid I may never get another idea that will turn into a novel...
...William Faulkner talked about modern novelists in his Nobel speech and how they have to deal with conflicts of the heart, with pride, and love, and lust. And it seems here in Something Happened you're dealing with nothing more than a kind of middle-class angst...