Word: anger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still another couple inhabits the yard, finally: two young adults on the verge of making decisions that will determine the course of their lives. As Ephraim, a young man who leaves Trinidad in frustration, Roland Smart communicates that anger forcing him to abandon his pregnant lover is justified. But as his lover, Karen Ford presents the other side of the same suffocating reality. He may be free to leave; she is trapped, forced to give in, obliged to abandon her dreams of self-respect and upward mobility...
Three minutes after you've met the guy, you get the feeling that Joe Oteri could worm his way under anybody's skin. His style adds a new dimension to the meaning of glibness, being the kind of fellow who can readily inflect a tone of mock anger when an interviewer insists on calling him Mr. Oteri: "Call me Joe for chrissakes. Everyone calls me Joe, except my daughter. She calls me asshole." And you're already giggling, if only inwardly. A burly native of South Boston who has earned a name as one of the best narcotics lawyers...
...believes are reducible, once the fight is enjoined, to such small sustaining acts as changing a light bulb in the apartment of a fellow a light bulb in the apartment of a fellow tenant too old to climb a ladder. But he does not bore the reader with his anger. In stead he spins a fascinating personal yearn about the lengthy battle waged by the tenants fo an old rent-controlled walk-up apartment house in the Gramercy Park section of New York City against the monied force of an expansion-bent hospital across the street...
...rising horror of Viet Nam, let himself be guided by his melancholy nature into the deception and self-pity that eventually forced his retreat to Texas. Oddly, Richard Nixon's time came in triumph. After his victory in 1972, he went to Camp David and there, in lonely anger, decided to reconstitute his Government by firing loyal workers and convinced himself that his position made him invincible to the Watergate investigators. And Jerry Ford, hardly realizing it, helped to seal his rejection in the 1976 election in the first month of his presidency by pardoning Nixon...
...rules of the democratic game. Some reproach us for what they call a moderate policy line ... but the path is narrow and any thoughtless act, any attitude that does not take reality into account could provoke catastrophic reactions for Spain and for democracy." Wary of fueling rightist anger, the party, cautiously, canceled a mass rally scheduled for early this week. The party's legendary heroine, Dolores ("La Pasionaria") Ibarruri, also was forced to delay her return to Spain from a long exile in Moscow...