Word: angst
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...editors protest too much. Their latest offering is not an embarrassment. This time there are no gimmicks, no reprints of the adolescent Wallace Stevens. And quite a bit of talent has returned from the recent past. At least people like Dawson and Meyers wail their angst tolerably well...
...Romanino portrays it, the scene is singularly lacking in heavenly joy. The skies are threatening, the nuns troubled, the Virgin sad, the Infant petulant. Miraculously wedding deep Venetian hues, Lombardian realism and Gothic expressionism, the painting seems a superb summation of that place and that moment when the brusque Angst-filled winds from the north began to cool the warmth of Italy's golden age. The high Renaissance was poised before a modern world. Romanino knew...
...Mood of Angst. This sort of glass touching has all but shattered for West Germany the high hopes with which it concluded the Franco-German Treaty of Friendship back in 1963. From Common Market cooperation to German hopes for some sort of Atlantic nuclear sharing, De Gaulle has proved increasingly obdurate in insisting on his vision of an independent France running Europe, with West Germany at best a junior partner. As a result, the Germans have fallen into a new mood of Angst about their own role in Europe...
...behave like any middle-class family, and after a while their absurd rituals and lunatic discourse begin to seem alarmingly close to the norm. And as they blithely beat words to a pulp in their do-it-yourself Old Bailey, they somehow suggest that one way to solve the angst-ridden question of communication among men is to kill the language in self-defense...
...Tennessee riot deepened the occupational angst of the U.S. deanery. Some theorized that times of depressingly gloomy weather and heavy academic load bring on incidents; others, particularly in the North, found fairer weather and increased leisure a more volatile combination. Most seemed to go along with Fred Turner, dean of the University of Illinois for the past 22 years, who says: "I've never been able to detect any pattern, except that the cause of the mean and ugly ones is usually something unexpected...