Word: angers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professorial melancholia is a disease of intense perfectionism," The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week. "The criticism, the anger, the nothing-is-ever-good-enough aspect is really at the center of this disease...
Oliver and Waldeck win over listeners because they are entertainers first and crusaders second. Dressed in T shirts and sneakers, they mix humor with their anger, and fun with their activism. In one number, Waldeck strolls around the stage under an umbrella. The lyric: "I walk the shores of Lake Champlain/ in the placid acid rain." In another tune, Waldeck dreams of being reincarnated as a "big, wrecking ball" so he can "crack down on condos." But fast-food executives would not find the show especially funny. "Lay down your Whopper and your fries," one song goes. "Save a rain...
Look Back in Anger--at the Lowell House JCR on Friday and Saturday...
Others were not so fortunate. Their frustration boiled into anger in the Marina district, where residents who tried to inspect their ruined houses were barred by police. After a shouting match with Mayor Art Agnos, a compromise allowed residents with escorts to enter their homes briefly to collect whatever they could before the buildings were torn down. "Our poor little lives are right here on the sidewalk," said Patrice Gehrke, loading a pickup with furniture and ferns. Diane Whitacre hoisted a drawing board on her shoulder so she could get on with her free-lance work. "The most important thing...
...verses in such a manner as to confound any attempt by the audience to sing along. In last night's rendition, the chorus of "I Shall Be Released" became a defiant cry rather than a moving affirmation, and Dylan's spitfire version of "Maggie's Farm" emphasized driving anger rather than Iyric comprehension. In other words, you knew he was mad but couldn't understand what he was saying, Only once in the hour-and-a-half long set did Dylan shed his rough edges, for the graceful acoustic ballad "Most of the Time," as he sang...