Word: anger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uprising was not planned in advance. Sealed off in one block of the prison, a small group of rioters exploded in a "spontaneous burst of violent anger" at a guard. When a faulty bolt unexpectedly gave way as they shoved on a gate, they suddenly had access to the rest of the prison. "The rebels were part of a new breed of younger, more aware inmates, largely black, who came to prison full of deep feelings of alienation and hostility," the commission concluded, but they were not "revolutionary conspirators...
...Family in blackface. Its humor plays with prejudices rather than on them. "Were they colored?" the police asked the elder Sanford about a gang of thieves in an early episode. "Yeah," he replied. "White." The old man, played by Redd Foxx, has none of Archie's anger. He is simply an engaging con artist who will resort to any ruse to keep his son from quitting the business and leaving home...
...sometimes think about the other students who listened with me during the summer to that full professor at Harvard, author of numerous books and articles, reading his notes. I sensed no anger in them, no feeling that this man was a cheat. Perhaps the thing which bothered me most about the course was the fact that we missed the opportunity to talk in depth about a subject which is fantastically interesting and important. I doubt that those other student will wake up someday, comprehend the absurdity of this situation, and feel angry...
...memory. All actors can play insanity; few play it well. O'Toole begins where other actors stop, with the unfocused gaze, the abrupt bursts of frenzied high spirits and precipitous depressions. Funny, disturbing, finally devastating, O'Toole finds his way into the workings of madness, revealing the anger and consuming anguish at the source. Jay Cocks
...ever. Witnessing an Olivier undertake a great role by a great dramatist is like watching a god serve a god. One also watches how an incomparable actor shifts his centers of strength. This time, Olivier's eyes seem dominant-wide, melancholy pools of bruised wisdom, anvils sparked with anger, slits of caustic contempt...