Word: angst
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...market was growing 20% a year (remember?), the math was simple. All those over 35 had their fingers on a calculator. These days, sadly, the math isn't much fun. In many households no one can stand even to open the 401(k) and brokerage statements because of the angst they inspire...
...erosion of guaranteed benefits is a big reason that boomers will have to work longer, and, says Robert Henrikson, Metlife's president of institutional business, it's a major factor in retirees' growing angst over their finances. A Metlife study found a high correlation between retirees satisfied with their finances and those with guaranteed income covering their fixed costs. The correlation exists among those with both low and high incomes. Peace of mind, it seems, comes from knowing you can pay the bills even if the stock market blows up. "The big ah-ha," says Henrikson, "is that people have...
...tortured middle-schoolers. In my all-girls enclave, middle school was far from a breeze. My class dealt with eating disorders, exclusive discussions of dating and the cool jeans to wear. Although I avoided the sexual tension during classes and the need to impress my crushes during recess, identity angst will never be far from middle-schoolers...
Things change. Imagine this was a year ago. A movie called "The Sum of all Fears" opens. You discount the implicit hype of the title - who could possibly sum up all the angst you are prey to in the deeper watches of the night? But you truck on out to the theater, and find yourself confronting a well-made, even occasionally witty, thriller in the "Fail Safe", "Seven Days in May" vein. Once more, dear friends, on to the brink. You come away reasonably pleased with a slick Hollywood fantasy...
...early 1960s, when Marvel Comics was introducing Spider-Man, X-Men and The Fantastic Four, the cold war had complicated America's optimism. Marvel's characters embodied the atom angst of the day: the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and the Hulk owed their powers to radiation. (In the movie, the radioactive spider that bit Peter Parker is now bioengineered, perfect for the age of anthrax and cloning.) More important, Marvel characters had psychology. They were conflicted and were driven, like Peter Parker, by guilt (Peter is haunted by having inadvertently caused his uncle's death) rather than simple revenge...