Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each. Had he stuck to his first inclination to show Belcredi as a serious man working hard at a studied foppery he would have succeeded admirably. But he continually interjected another character--that of a bored and pouting aristocrat whose chief occupation was making little moues of disdain, anger, and hurt pride. The remaining actors were uniformly competent without shining, which considering the high quality of the leads, is quite praiseworthy...
Verbal fireworks continued even after the meeting had officially concluded. As Howe left the stage, he was approached by Thomas Dorgan, clerk of the Suffolk Superior Court and a long-time critic of the University. Dorgan, red-faced with anger, began an impassioned attack on Howe's address and on University policy in general. "You're too legalistic," he shouted. "There are people over there who violated the Teacher's Oath and we're going to get them out of there. I mean business." With a parting blast, Dorgan charged, "The members of the Corporation are not honorable men. They...
...space (present count: 5 vols., 2,529 pp.) on Danny O'Neill, a sensitive, spectacled youngster growing up in the same South Side slums as Studs and James Farrell himself. Earlier novels in the O'Neill saga, e.g., A World I Never Made, My Days of Anger, found young Danny seething with frustrations and a rage to leave the poor, brawl-bitten shanty Irish world of the O'Neills who bore him and the O'Flahertys who brought him up. In The Face of Time, Danny is five, too young to care about much except where...
...people will ever make a fool of McNamara. H.U.E.R.A. members say that in spite of his lack of experience, he is one of the shrewdest labor men around. He has never been known to show anger when dealing with the University, yet he usually gets what he wants. He will back anyone's grievance to the limit, providing the employee with the complaint will follow him into the offices of the administration...
...against the U.S. that Italian anger was aroused. In most cities, the mob attacks were directed against British consulates. All newspapers printed pictures of blood on the steps of Trieste's San Antonio Church and cried denunciations of the inept performance of General Winterton. There were demands for his recall. Pella demanded that those responsible for the police order to fire "be named and that they be prosecuted." In London, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that "the police seem to have shown admirable discipline and restraint in the face of extreme provocation." and U.S. Secretary...