Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What most roused the dull anger of São Paulo's clerks and factory workers was the racking pressure of ten years of rising prices. Despite all the government's promises, food costs were 27% more than a year ago; within the week, the price of rice had nearly doubled because the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul had suddenly embargoed shipments to avert a shortage of its own. Electric-power rationing caused by drought had shortened factory hours and thus cut take-home...
...other night, after seeing Les Enfants de Paradis at the Brattle, I was strongly moved to both ecstatic praise and frustrating anger. There was and is no doubt in my mind that the movie is a masterpiece--in acting, screenplay, photography and direction. I was angry at myself only because I had never learned French well enough to do without the English subtitles. I have seen many French movies, and never felt so furious about this, but I have never seen a foreign language movie comparable to Les Enfants de Paradis...
...have just finished "Limelight Out" in your Feb. 9 issue. I finished it with a mixture of anger, disgust and fear...
...French government, ever a thin reed, bent last week under a gale of resentment blowing out of German-speaking, French-minded Alsace. To cool Alsatians' anger at the verdict in the Oradour massacre trial (TIME, Feb. 23), Premier René Mayer hustled through the Assembly a law decreeing amnesty for all Frenchmen forcibly drafted by the Germans during World War II. It had the immediate effect of granting pardons to 13 Alsatians who, pressed into the Nazis' SS, had participated in the wartime rape of Oradour-sur-Glane...
Only a week had gone by since Congress formally began its long-threatened investigations of U.S. colleges and universities. But presidents and professors throughout the nation were already stewing and seething in anger. The men running the investigations were hardly the type that teachers could trust. They had been ruthless sluggers in the past, and they gave no indication that they had reformed. Last week, at the Atlantic City convention of the American Association of School Administrators, the investigators took some hard-fisted counter-punches-delivered in no uncertain terms by a woman. Mrs. Agnes Meyer, wife of Chairman Eugene...