Word: anger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fervent believers of many faiths, and less devout citizens appalled by what they see as a national breakdown of moral standards, have never reconciled themselves to those decisions. Their anger has been steadily fanned by a series of lower-court interpretations that have gone so far as to bar voluntary prayer sessions on school property organized by students outside of class hours. Critics fear the courts are attempting to forbid any public acknowledgment of God whatsoever in the schools and thus, in effect, to enthrone indifference or even hostility toward religion as official government policy. They can even cite...
...issues of the day just don't interest the Republicans--they've already got their tax cuts and dismantled welfare state. It doesn't seem to offend their moral sensibilities that during the past three years eight million more Americans have slipped below the poverty line. It doesn't anger them that Black unemployment is double that of white, and that programs and benefits that had once been the cushion between subsistence and deprivation have been abruptly withdrawn...
...Anger, or at least spirited disagreement, is the most common impetus for a letter to the editor, and reader dissent surfaced early on-with the year's first issue, honoring the computer as Machine of the Year. This break with TIME'S tradition of choosing a living human as Man of the Year did not sit well with most of the 1,219 readers who wrote to us; 953 censured the selection. More than one called the choice "unbelievable." Other comments: "To glorify a piece of metal that could some day rule our lives is ludicrous" and "Byte...
...small publishing house that specializes in Russian literature. Currently one of the most visible writers in exile, Dovlatov is a regular contributor of fiction to The New Yorker. Last fall a collection of short pieces, The Compromise, was published by Knopf. The tales are conspicuously devoid of the anger, overt and covert, that characterizes many émigrés' writing about their native country; Dovlatov's stories gently ridicule the obtuseness of the Soviet bureaucracy and the mendacity and corruption that invade everyday life. In The Compromise the author comically contrasts the news stories written by a Soviet...
...expecting windows being broken and houses being burned down," she said Merrill added that the only major sign of student anger occurred during a five-minute food fight in the college's Fast Dining Hall...