Work is often hard, and office work — with its elements of monotony, anxiety, and anguish — presents a particular kind of hardship.
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"Modern" in this case was 1966, the year when Shostakovich completed his 11th quartet, here played with beautiful articulation and without heavy anguish, presenting a very grown-up kind of suffering.
A letter to the Times argued that insofar as my play presented Speer's anguish and Hitler's charm, it revealed "the danger, and to some the offensiveness, of fictionalising historical characters responsible for ghastly crimes.
Neville remembers a journey upset by a drunken Falklands veteran, bellowing in anguish; at present he finds himself stuck next to an exhausted, ill-managed toddler, shrieking, running ragged along the aisles "thumpety thump".
(Interesting to see Toynbee not learning from his mistake and, 20 years later, acclaiming Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - The Outsider of the 1970s - as "a work of great, perhaps urgent importance" reaching "the very heart of our present psychological and spiritual anguish").
"The exodus of Christians fills us with anguish and presents a far from encouraging future," he said in Arabic.
This, of course, is merely the situation of being alive, Prince suggests; glory and anguish are always present in everything, and often in equal parts.
But he was also fond of struggling with family, friends, lovers, colleagues, and himself, and the films in a new boxed set, "Early Bergman" (Criterion Eclipse), show the anguish that was present in his films from the start.
That Tank was very much present during this show, squeezing out anguish on "One Man," and smoldering on "Slowly".
