Word: anger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Upon learning about the end of the war, I could not help but feel a mixture of anger and shame-shame for all of those years and anger to those who raise champagne glasses in lofty praise of peace. I cannot celebrate...
...When the conservative Chicago Tribune began running Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman's left-leaning iconoclasms last June, it warned readers that "his provocative and controversial style will shock and anger some." Sure enough, shock and anger quickly appeared-in Tribune editorials. "We can't sit by," the Trib huffed in July, "while he refers to Israel as 'the Prussia of the Middle East.'" The next month, the paper hopped up again to skewer Von Hoffman's critical description of Republican partying at the Miami convention: "If some [of the delegates] appeared to be affluent, well...
Oliver Brooks, president of the Cambridge Corporation, a non-profit housing concern partly funded by Harvard and MIT, also denied that the low-income units were in jeopardy, and suggested that the DCA direct its anger toward the Federal government and not Harvard...
Prior to John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956), the image of the Eng lish that Americans absorbed from plays and films was a one-dimensional but slyly endearing caricature. The screen, in particular, was peopled with dotty aristocrats, blithering Colonel Blimps, rural eccentrics, peculiar par sons and an assortment of idiots. One knew, however, that they were Britons of the right sort; they would muddle through to the next whisky and soda...
...victimized as a racial alien and violated as a woman simply because she is a woman. Greece's Irene Papas, who has often played aggrieved and grieving women (Z, Electra, Iphigenia in Aulis), brings to the role a controlled intensity, an innate intelligence, and an implacably stubborn anger. To humanize the part, however, is to make it somewhat less than awesome in its sweeping horror. The paradox remains that the Greek playwrights gave us a gallery of women who bewail their powerlessness while these very same women are as flintily, dauntingly formidable as any of their sex ever seen...