Word: angers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candor like Marlon Brando. "I suppose you think I'm just another asshole actor?" he asks rhetorically. "No," comes the reply, "an asshole actor with heavy pretensions." Brando roars with glee. Tell him you think he is the acting genius of his generation and he will snort with anger and walk away...
...York. A small campaign has already started, portraying Moynihan as the intellectual elite's liaison (with working class background) to the workers, while Moynihan is always pointing out that organized labor of the Meany description has been longest and loudest in its condemnation of Soviet totalitarianism. working class anger, dormant for the moment because of apathy and Wallace's paralysis, could revive again under Moynihan or some other figure--this time as the servant of a nationalist appeal meant to increase the power of the multinational corporations but satisfying popular needs for an overriding sense of meaning. The national case...
...here Hellman's anger serves her well. She is still angry enough at American intellectuals and their reluctance to follow the simple rules of decency--"to try to tell the truth, not to bear false witness, not to harm my neighbor, to be loyal to my country"--in the first half of the fifties to be even more angry at their attempts now to glorify her. Hellman claims she feels little against the McCarthys or Nixons, whom she regards as merely the leaders of a movement in search of a scapegoat. Her anger is instead directed towards "the people...
Hellman's courage is still evident in spite of her deliberate down-playing of it. And so also is her anger--especially at those who would praise her now but did not have any beliefs worth holding on to when the conditions of the age tested them...
...liberty, but once he had it nobody could take it away, but that we in America fought fast for liberty and could be deprived of it in an hour." The events of the past four years have proven Mr. Crossman all too wise, and have proved that Hellman's anger is all too well-founded...