Word: anger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite spreading public impatience and anger with flyaway food costs, the Administration has done next to nothing to hold them in check for fear of losing the farm vote. Indeed Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz regularly travels through the farm belt holding out promises of even higher prices to come. Most economists are wary about controlling farm prices because it could lead to shortages and rationing. Yet there are alternatives to price controls. The Administration could increase supplies by 1) loosening meat import quotas, 2) reducing some price supports and 3) releasing Government feed surpluses on the market. A start...
Kopit's Buffalo Bill is a Kiplingesque figure, ready to bear the white man's burden manfully to feed and clothe and look after the savages and try to civilize them. He shows genuine anger when the government leaves the Indians to starve, and even goes to Washington and tries to get the President to act. He is a civilized...
...Intellectually, I'm not essentially advanced over Harry Angstrom. I went to Harvard, it's true, and wasn't much good at basketball...other than that we're rather similar. I quite understand both his anger and passivity, and feeling of the whole Vietnam involvement as a puzzle, that something strange has gone wrong...but it's no great leap of the imagination to do that...
...negative reflection of women is documented in story after story, and even women authors offer little hope as they show women wasting their lives tied to worthless men or driven to suicide by the very awareness that such a course is trying to develop. One can try to substitute anger for depression, but the problems of channeling the anger constructively remain...
...excelled in the "cottage industries" of publishing-mysteries and romantic escape fiction. From Charlotte Bronte to Colette, they have been most widely admired for their writing about love. Today, however, a good deal of serious women's fiction is echoing to the cadences of hate, or at least anger. There are enough stories about the wickedness of men and descriptions of male lapses in courage and feeling to delight the Wife of Bath...