Word: angers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just empathy with the people of South Africa that sends these thousands to Washington; it's not just anger at the South African backed UNITA rebels, who fight to topple the Angolan government; it's not just sympathy with the people of Nicaragua, who endure the contra war; it's not just solidarity with the people of El Salvador, whose "democratic" government pursues a reign of terror against them. It's not just empathy, anger, sympathy, and solidarity which brings people to Washington, but it's an even more striking moral issue--responsibility...
...idea of an international peace conference to break the diplomatic logjam that has plagued the Middle East for years almost invariably arouses anger. Last week it led to an acrimonious dispute that thoroughly shook the 2 1/2- year-old coalition government in Israel, with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir bitterly accusing Shimon Peres, his own Foreign Minister, of displaying a "peace-at-any-price" mentality for endorsing such a parley. Every U.S. Administration since the mid-1970s has opposed the idea, largely because it would mean participation by the Soviet Union. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were all deeply...
Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic has all of these. Yet the point of this Tennessee Williams-style southern potboiler is not to shock, but to tell a story of the destructive power of greed, anger, and jealousy--and of the equally destructive power of naivete, truth and love...
That, to be sure, is not the impression anyone would get from listening to politicians in Washington. Among them the dominant mood is unalloyed anger. Speech after speech in Congress accuses Tokyo of wiping out American jobs with floods of imports while keeping the Japanese market closed to U.S. and other foreign goods and services. That resentment does not just ring through debates on trade policy; it also creeps into remarks that are supposed to be focused on banking, mergers, education, defense, science -- almost anything a legislator feels moved to orate about...
Wilson's greatest gift is his ability to make sense of anger: he writes naturalistic scenes of genial humor turning into an explosive violence that flows from his characters and from the warping effect racism has had upon them. Humiliated in the larger world, these people fiercely guard their dignity close to home. Defeated by enemies too distant to see, they lash out at their own kind -- a colleague in Ma Rainey, a son in Fences. These confrontations can seem like old-fashioned melodrama in comparison with the plotless minimalism now in vogue. But Wilson has the weight of history...