Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knox statement made the Chinese blow their top with righteous anger. Said the Chinese military, through their Chung-king newspaper Sao Tang Jih Pao: "Signs of Anglo-American reinforcements are absent while British and American authorities continue to indulge in sidetracking remarks...
...Answer. It would have been easy for the U.S. and Britain, with the exercise of a pinch of tact, to dispel this serious anger. The Chinese wanted an explanation, but for at least a week they got none, and as they waited their anger mounted by the hour. Veteran correspondents began to experience an unprecedented coolness from the Chinese. In lieu of an explanation all they could go on was results, and the results-in Malaya, in the Philippines, in the Indies-continued bad, however gallant the local actions...
...This secret anger and this constant search for ways to kill could not but change men's hearts"; and the change-which calls forth some of the most just and serious writing in the book-deeply worried Ling Tan. In his sleepless nights he thought: "Is this not the end of our people when we become like other warlike people in the world?" And he answered himself, admitting the necessity of killing: "And yet in these days we must remember that peace is good. The young cannot remember, and it is we who must remember and teach them again...
...these defeats were taken with anger, but relative complacency, by the U.S. Because of these cumulative defeats a U.S. Army was fighting a desperate battle in the Philippines and a British Army was in a tough spot in Malaya. If those two engagements end in defeat, the U.S. will not be able to shrug them off as two more battles lost-they will mark the loss of a major campaign, a defeat as serious to the democracies as the fall of western Europe in the spring...
...greatest power of Sinclair's chef-d'oeuvre lies in its sweetness. This quality makes history far more honest and more clear than if anger and hatred gave their edges to it. Sinclair understands how intimately involved individuals are in the making of history, yet how helplessly conditioned they are by their lives. He understands "occupational psychosis": that disease of specialized thinking by which human beings, in this age, are most inevitably set at odds. That is what makes his characters genuinely tragic symbols. It makes for a sort of sublimity when he can unexcitedly use the word...