Word: angst
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...Warren Miller, director of the center, reported that while the national angst over Viet Nam is responsible for much of the decline, the loss of confidence is greatest not among discernible war hawks or doves, but among moderates. Of that middle group, only 26% now have great confidence in Washington, compared with 74% just six years...
...book's hero, is reportedly modelled on GM Vice President John DeLorean, known in the industry as a young Turk because he used to drive foreign sports cars until successive promotions forced him to start driving Chevrotlets. At any rate, Adam and Erica are suffering from the Great American Angst because each has begun to find inanimate objects more sexually attractive than the other's beautiful body. Adam's attentions have turned toward the Orion, a new model car General Motors is preparing to foist upon the public; Erica, in turn, has taken to shoplifting small items from the local...
...feet. Falling hair is in his comb, and gray rather than great expectations cloud his eyes. Literary ways of dealing with this theme naturally vary. The approach chosen by Luke Rhinehart for his first novel is to consider the middle-age heebie-jeebies as a condition of the soul, angst-laden with boredom and despair...
...split personality runs through his whole family. It certainly shows in the book. But what provides fascinating ambiguity in fiction is merely troublesome in personal autobiography. Despite his deliberately quiet voice, there is something unconvincingly stagy about Greene's spiritual hypochondria, and about his insistence on the personal angst and failure that he has endured. It is almost as if, like many of his characters, he believes that worldly failure is a sign of God's grace and is trying to impress Someone other than the reader...
...angst can, of course, be another's anger, and there will undoubtedly be those who find the self-absorbed debate carried on within Rosen's essays reprehensible. Equally annoying are his rather glib capsule histories of radical revolt, his tendency to view older generations from a present of incomprehension rather than in the terms of their own historical past, and his occasionally ostentatious display of other writers and their work, which-though it illuminates Rosen's own development-is not really all that necessary...