Word: angst
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...mocked up a marvelous illusion of life in the Nazi ruling circles at the turning point of the war. The scene, as they paint it, is a seething roach nest of military puritans, rat-eyed party fanatics and servile chimney barons, of endless work, nonstop parties, public arrogance, private Angst, Germanic sentiment and rotting will, of spies, lies and a dirty, interminable fight for personal power. And through the scene but somehow above it, like let's-pretend Valkyries, wanders a tribe of strangely ambivalent German women: violent when they are wicked, passive when they are good...
...Blueprint for Murder, Actor Cotten pushes his mannerism to the point where he seems to undergo a paroxysm of Angst every time he decides to put one foot in front of another. To some extent, Cotten's anxiety is understandable: he has reason to believe that his brother and his niece were murdered by his brother's second wife (Jean Peters), but he cannot prove anything, and neither can the police. , In a desperate attempt to keep the woman from poisoning his brother's other child, Gotten poisons her first-with a tablet of strychnine he found...
Slowly the Russian walked around his charges and approached the couple. Slowly a grin covered his face. He tapped the woman on the back. She shuddered. Rigid apprehension spread over the faces of the onlookers, but the Russian rumbled soothingly: "Keine Angst. Keine Angst." (No fear. No fear.) Then he waved the muzzle of his Tommy gun toward the prisoner, who instinctively recoiled a step, and asked: "Dein Mann...
...most important object added last year is the reproduction in concrete of a sandstone slab, dating from about 1280 from the tomb of Ulrich, Baron of Regensburg. The slab, which is the gift of Dr. Angst of Zurich, was found when the old fortifications of Zurich were destroyed in 1903 imbedded face down in one of the towers. It had served as the lower shelf of an embrasure, having been carried off for building material upon the demolition of its original home, the Church of the Barefooted Augustinians. Engraved upon the slab, in the manner of the niello technique...
...Heinrich Angst, "Organizer and first director of the Swiss National Museum, representative before us today of a noble institution of art and history supported by a democracy of a federated government like our own, and of an ancient people bold as their mountains and free as their...