Word: anger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these people ever taken the trains in London, Paris--even Chicago? Don't they know it does not have to be this way? The newcomer, on a rising note of hysteria, begins to speak of the indignity and passivity that haunt the 20th century. More in sorrow than in anger, the real, regular commuters shake their heads and insist: "You don't understand...
Much of Svetlana's anger came to center on Mrs. Wright, who ran the residents' lives at Taliesin West with what she proudly called "invisible discipline." Mrs. Wright decided what they wore, what they discussed at dinner and whether they should have children. "I detested her power over others," Svetlana said. "The lady bore such a resemblance to my father's worst qualities that I shrank from...
Most editorials have agreed with the President's unimpeachably balanced view, but here and there some anger has flared. The Wall Street Journal said it did not condone violence, but asked, "If the 'state of nature' has returned to some big cities, can people fairly be blamed for modern vigilantism? Is it more 'civilized' to suffer threats to individual liberty from criminals, or is it an overdose of sophistication to say individuals can never resort to self-protection?" The Milwaukee Journal, also insisting that violence should not be condoned, noted that in the wake of the Goetz case...
Walter Berns, a political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank, argued that the angry pro-Goetz sentiment, based on moral indignation about crime, is a healthy sign. "It's an expression of an honest and decent sentiment," he said. "Anger, coming from someone who has not been personally victimized by a criminal, is an expression of concern for fellow citizens. That expression should not be derided or despised...
...been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power have paid for and put up with so much architecture they detested?" asked Tom Wolfe in his contentious book on the Bauhaus. Wolfe railed against the citizen's abdication of control of modern architecture, and his anger may well embrace $ all the ugly furnishings of the times, which people have simply accepted. Where there is no felt attachment to physical surroundings, the surroundings will be allowed to go their own way, and the individual realizes a constant ache of discontentment with his life, an ache whose source...