Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest family-program in history. Bonnie is swept too: one way by Marvin, a chronic wolf-another by Link, who is much too worried about what will happen when the family hears the program to notice Bonnie's new dress. In the long run come discovery, anger and pain, a slash of real pathos from Pop Moore, mollification through the drunken delights of notoriety, and an ultimate regaining of everybody's sanity...
Later Farrell switched to a less convincing underdog, Danny O'Neill, a sensitive, bewildered, half-educated Chicago slum boy with intellectual yearnings. My Days of Anger is Volume IV of the O'Neill tetralogy. With a dreary hopefulness, it finishes what A World I Never Made dejectedly began...
...Days of Anger covers the years from 1924 to 1927. They are three of the quietest years in the history of the battling O'Neill clan. There is almost none of the shillelagh-shaking, back-alley bickering, front-step gossip that gives Farrell novels their authentic Celtic charm. Reason: 1 ) age and death are taming and weeding out the O'Neills; 2) Danny is growing away from his feckless family, and Novelist Farrell is busy recording the long, long thoughts of a sensitive boy in Chicago's frustrating South Side. In this book Danny works...
Britain's reaction to a wave of anti-British criticism in the U.S. was both sharp and serious last week. Britons have been slow to anger at what they consider misinterpretation of Empire policy, but this time...
...soldier's anger at the commentator's attempt to make a show out of war is not an isolated incident. It is virtually a daily occurrence on every American fighting front. Soldiers have huddled in foxholes under heavy aerial bombardment while their radios told them that U.S. forces had complete control of the air over that sector. They have come out of action, blind with weariness, just in time to get a cheerful little radio earful about what they had just been through...