Word: anger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LIGHT OF YESTERDAY'S tragic loss of 147 American lives, feelings of sadness, anger, and frustration are appropriate. What we must add to that list, however, is regret--regret that the Marines were in Lebanon in the first place, and regret that so many young men had to die before we realized the extent of our vulnerability. The time has come for President Reagan to call home the Marines...
...HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN Marines were murdered in their sleep in Beirut yesterday, and the dominant feeling in this country is a combination of sadness, anger and frustration. Washington cannot punish the aggressors--we do not know for sure who they are and even if we did, the risk inherent in retaliation of involving American forces in a full-scale conflict is too great. And short of withdrawing the Marines, there isn't much Washington can do to protect the remainder of the contingent...
Democrats last week introduced a "sense of the Senate" resolution, to be taken up next week, demanding Watt's ouster. Republican Senators met for their regular weekly lunch and concluded that they, too, wanted Watt out. It had been thought that dismissing Watt would anger Western conservatives, an important constituency for Reagan. But at the lunch, one Western Senator after another reported that the Interior Secretary had lost his popularity among their constituents, and that appeared to decide the matter. Said one Republican later: "He's gone...
Understandably, Brill's anger crystallizes into bitterness when Nazi soldiers seize and kill his family. Even among the nuns who shelter him while orphaned, Brill senses fear and resentment...
UNFORTUNATELY, the bitterness Brill subconsciously inherits from his childhood remains with him as a dominant--if not guiding--force. It is this undercurrent of anger--against the Nazis who slaughtered his family, his students who are hindered by mediocrity and, most important, at his own failure to excel--that gives the novel its emotional force. By bottling up the tension throughout the novel, Ozick heightens the impact of the climax, and makes Brill's epiphany about himself and the nature of his goals all the more painful...