Word: angers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris. Only he knows what he hoped to accomplish. Arriving immediately after gubernatorial elections in which his P.S.D. party scored impressive victories, he might even have expected his dramatic reappearance to trigger a popular counterrevolution against President Castello Branco's revolutionary government. What it provoked was the anger of the linha dura (hardline) military officers behind Castello Branco and a harsh new Institutional Act (TIME, Nov. 5), which dissolved all political parties and effectively put Brazil under rule by decree. Kubitschek himself was hauled before a military tribunal for such intensive grilling about corruption during his 1956-61 term...
...churchgoers have a tradition of generous giving-more than $3 billion in 1964 alone. Normally, pledges are made with no strings attached and without regard to the minister's policies or convictions, but the churches' strong commitment to civil rights has been a divisive issue. In anger, some givers have withheld pledges; in respect for this kind of contemporary Christian witness, others have donated with even greater enthusiasm...
Within the interpretation Mayer provided for him, Seltzer created an utterly engaging Prospero. His anger, his twinkle, his thunder, his weariness, all were part of the same man--a man I've never met anywhere, but one I'd like to know...
World War II. The officers are overage, the women bed-prone, but with part of their time and part of their minds, they feel themselves part of the war effort. Although they never hear a shot fired in anger, Waugh shows how war changes or destroys them all. In the end, Waugh's hero, a mild-mannered professor of history and philosophy in peacetime, still cannot decide whether it has all been worthwhile, but he consoles himself with an aphorism, which might also be the message of the book: "It's easy to be happy when you know...
...weeks ago, a band of leftist students started demonstrating outside the National Palace, taunting loyalist Dominican army guards. With anger and bitterness all around, one soldier shot an 18-year-old in the back, killing him instantly. That led to a series of flash-fire fights between rebels and loyalists resulting m four dead, 14 wounded. Last week the city rumbled with bomb blasts five in all, damaging a bar popular with U.S. troops, the plant of a noisily antimilitary magazine, and a drive-in movie Death toll: another two Dominicans...