Word: angers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is something of a milestone in the current black-white confrontation. In a tribute to the late Lorraine Hansberry put together from her own writings, the able, interracial cast puts on a performance that reflects her hot anger at indignity and injustice...
...young man, published a scholarly book on suicide. Last week his words seemed tragically prophetic. Hitherto Czechoslovakia's resistance to last summer's Soviet invasion had ranged from almost comic escapades in sabotage, to reasoned defense of its reform measures in the press, to mass demonstrations of anger and resentment. Almost never was there desperation to be seen, not even among the most militant fatigue-jacketed students of Prague's Charles University...
...Auditorium, Tenor Richard Tucker suddenly noticed an air-conditioned chill. "Turn it off," he complained; the cool air, he said, would freeze his throat. But of course, said the impresario-and sotto voce told his assistant to leave it on. All through the first two acts, Tucker's anger mounted. Finally, just before the third act he announced: "Unless the air conditioning is turned off, I do not sing a note!" Someone mentioned that the audience might leave. "Let them!" Tucker roared. "They must accommodate to me, not me to them. The trouble with this business," he said solemnly...
...empathy with the temper of the nation. It was summed up best by the New York Post's Max Lerner: "Mainly, it fitted in with the mood of the people-far better than most wishful Democrats would agree. What they want most, after all the confrontations and anger and hate, is a quieter breathing spell in which America can catch up with the gains registered on its statute-books and its conscience...
Even the Post's Liberal James Wechsler conceded that "few documents have so effectively achieved their immediate purpose-the temporary political disarmament of many who viewed Nixon's accession with mingled anger and apprehension." As Conservative David Lawrence saw it, the speech was "a timely presentation of thoughts which lie deep in the hearts of the American people." Joseph Kraft, with grudging appreciation, noted that "Mr. Nixon was speaking in homilies. But he had the right homilies for the moment...