Word: angers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out, Khrushchev wasn't dead. But the old man is seventy, active, corpulent and subject to fits of peasant anger. He pushes hard with a heavy schedule of travel and speeches, and his forty-seven years in Soviet politics make Franklin Roosevelt's harrowing public years seem lush. The reports of the Soviet leader's death may be true next time, perhaps before the world situation has changed substantially. While the sensations of the mock death scene enacted this week remain fresh, it may be worth considering what a world without Khrushchev would be like...
...Times Square traffic, though he lacks the liquid melody that Gielgud supplies as the voice of Hamlet's father's unseen ghost. His hands punctuate the speeches with percussive rhythm and instinctive grace. He is virile, yet mannerly, as sweet of temper as he is quick to anger, and his wary eyes dart from foe to friend with the swiftness of thought...
...WHITE AMERICA has as its theme the oppression of the Negro, and the reactions to this pressure-in humor, in cynicism, in anger and in sorrow-are as numerous as the dramatic sketches that recount them...
Since Burns had been notably casual in his attitude toward Jacksonville's blooming racial conflict, his action infuriated the city's younger Negroes. Explained Ernest Lent, executive director of Jacksonville's Human Relations Council, later: "The leaders kept their anger under control, but the young people couldn't help but react. For a lot of them, of course, this was just an excuse to raise hell...
Verse for the W.C. The many sides of Lewis emerge from his letters: exuberant promoter of the arts, gifted literary infighter, thin-skinned egotist, kindly teacher. Dashed off hurriedly and often in hot anger, the letters are no match for Lewis' best prose, but perhaps they better reveal the man beneath the controversialist...