Word: angst
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...this Age of the Blahs, many thousands of Americans are finding a new way to assuage money worries, insomnia, angst, neuroticism and neglect of liver and lungs. Their new-found route to tranquillity is yoga. Long regarded as a freak clique, yoga practitioners in virtually every community in the country, from suburb to ghetto, Y.M.C.A.s to churches and American Legion halls, are discovering that yoga, shorn of incantatory mysticism, is a highly practical way to relax tensions, tone up the physique, reduce the embonpoint and turn off tranquilizers, cholesterol-laden food, even smoking and drinking. In short, yoga, no longer...
...Pedestrian broods over German guilt rather too prettily. It is the third film directed by Maximilian Schell, and it is serious - perhaps excessively so - in purpose and demeanor. The Pedestrian is riddled with angst and festooned with a lot of fussy, soft-focus photography that makes its sober speculations on national culpability look like the latest thing in a trendy magazine: "Germany - Forgive and Forget" or "The Fatherland: Two Decades of Remorse." The subject of the film is a prominent German industrialist who may or may not have participated in executing most of a Greek village. His complicity in this...
...nothing to do with expressionism. For all their thinness and scarred surfaces, Giacometti's bronzes are not about anguish or loss, loneliness or the post-Hiroshima terrors. They are emotionally quite ineloquent. This may be one reason for their survival into a time when most of the angst-pushing European sculpture of the 1940s and '50s has vanished down the historical drain. In his obsession with the difficulty of seeing, Giacometti wished to get beyond style. He partially succeeded because - paradoxical as it may seem - he was culturally saturated, an artist of enormous erudition who boasted without much...
...article [Dec. 31]. It is the pervasive narcissism of our contemporary culture that deflects today's capable youth from mastering the accumulated knowledge of the past, which is the province of higher education. Scholastic aptitude is not aptitude for finding "the real me" in sensitivity to adolescent angst, or in self-serving activism for student rights. Since these are the major concern of brighter young people today, is it any wonder that traditional measurements reflect what they...
...contribute to his happiness." Therefore, he believes, discipline is still relaxed, as it has been since the '50s. However, Kagan predicts a change away from permissiveness as today's 19-year-olds start having children. "They will look back on their childhood and interpret part of their Angst to the fact that their parents seemed confused about what to teach them. And they will vow that this will not happen to their children...