Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad, translated by Robert Graves. A charming prose-and-verse Iliad in which the customary flavor of chalk dust is replaced by sharp-tasting satire...
...seaside diner, the same girl was struggling with her dessert. "I can't see," she complained huskily as the melting ice cream slithered from her spoon. "Well, you can feel, can't you?" said her escort. Just within earshot, a waitress hefted her tray with barely controlled anger at the callous young...
...ANGER OF ACHILLES; HOMER'S ILIAD, translated by Robert Graves. The most charming English version since Alexander Pope's, treating the original as entertainment rather than as epic tragedy...
...agnostic who "is not interested in religion," he is leader of one of the world's most religious peoples; he is a socialist with a built-in antipathy to capitalism, but most of his governing colleagues are conservative businessmen; often so irritable that he will explode with anger at a misplaced teacup, Nehru endured more than ten years of imprisonment by the British with equanimity and aplomb...
This is an angry first novel about the casual maltreatment of the insane in a Midwestern state asylum called Canterbury. The book's anger might be a great deal more effective if Author Telfer, who herself spent six years as a clerk in a state institution, did not keep abandoning the snake pit for the passion...