Word: anger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eliminate any endorsement of prayer, the practice can apparently win approval from the current court. Massachusetts started the machinery to do that the day after the Jaffree decision. Many backers of school prayer, however, want vocal affirmation, not silent opportunity. They hope last week's ruling has roiled enough anger to energize the flagging effort to pass a constitutional amendment formally authorizing voluntary school prayer. "We're going to turn the heat up on Congress," vows conservative Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie. For all the turmoil and upset generated, the case had a calming effect on at least one person. Said...
...there is a new album, his 23rd of original material, which will be available in stores this week. Empire Burlesque is full of turmoil and anger and mystery, an oblique diary of all this time just past. It is also a record of survival and a tentative kind of triumph. Maybe Bob Dylan got a little lost, but he never left the field. This album is hard evidence that he is ready to take the point again...
Spurred by anger at literary injustice--sloppy thinking and extra-literary intrusions into creative and critical writing--he enters town "ready to apprehend delinquent writers' but just a little "too late to ambush the novelist John Irving, who has already ridden into town, cleaned out the banks, and ridden out again unharmed." While it is impossible to sum up Epstein's thoughts on American fiction, criticism, and literary life in general, his general theme is that "literature is going through a very bad patch at present...
Following the riot, the People's Daily, the official party newspaper, speculated that the incident was triggered by "inadequate education for youth about civil behavior and the law." Municipal officials called for more ideological training in schools. Official anger may succeed in reining in China's rowdy soccer fans for a while. But Western diplomats, and even some Chinese, suggest that less, not more discipline is needed. They see the riot as a cathartic release of emotions that have had little opportunity for expression in a society where hard work, obedience and humility are demanded. "Some people would find...
...surprised few oil-industry watchers that Hartley, a man with a reputation for being as blunt and hard driving as a drilling rig, resisted with deep anger and tenacity T. Boone Pickens' attempt to take over his company. Last April, when the two men met in a Washington corridor while waiting to testify about takeovers before the House Ways and Means Committee, Hartley refused to shake his adversary's hand. This was no sporting contest; this...