Word: angst
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...John Donnelly of Hartford's Institute of Living offers what is for laymen the most sense-making distinction: guilt is apprehension over some transgression in the past, whether actually committed or merely contemplated, whereas anxiety involves only the possible and the future. Because the German equivalent, die Angst, carries a stronger connotation of dread, many psychiatrists prefer this term to the English word. Of itself, anxiety is not a neurosis, but it is an essential ingredient in almost all neuroses, most major mental and psychosomatic illnesses. Its victims fall into three broad categories...
...give this book a brisk under-the-counter sale. It could even be useful in the schools, if they have not entirely abandoned the study of language. More work, however, remains to be done. What can the innocent reader make of the recent literary criticism without an entry under ANGST, SYNCRETIC, AMBIVALENCE, KITSCH Or ENAGEMENT, and how is he expected to follow W. H. Auden's recent criticism without the lowdown on CHARISMA...
...make a bee-line for Emerson Hall. Visiting Professor Earle will try to fill huge vacuum in Harvard's Philosophy department by discussing the heresies of European existentialism in Room F. Orthodox analysts down the hall in Emerson A will smirk smugly at 138a's talk of being and angst while they doodle rigorously with 140's metamathematical p's and q's. The literati, both serious and dilantante, will feel all the agonies of existentialist Choice themselves in deciding between Harbage's survey of Shakespeare in Room 18, 2 Divinity Avenue, and Brower's reading in Yeats, Eliot, Frost...
...orgone box"-TIME, June 4, 1956) to measure "Life-Waves." Pinfold gets the odd notion that Graves-Upton's box is measuring him. He imagines things, and Mrs. Pinfold presently decides that her husband needs a long sea voyage to cure him of "the fashionable agonies of angst...
...Under pressure, Dixon retreats to the practical joke as readily as Walter Mitty did to the hero-fantasy; when socially and emotionally discomfited, he makes faces-"his Edith Sitwell face," "his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face." At novel's end he tries to articulate his flashes of Angst in the pan during a drunken public lecture: "The point about Merrie England is that it was about the most un-Merrie period in our history. It's only the home-made pottery crowd, the organic husbandry crowd, the recorder-playing crowd . . ." He keels over "without even telling them...