Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though both came from "good" homes, the girl lied, shoplifted, ran away from home and had no friends. An indifferent student, the boy swung between anger and lethargy. He ate to the point of obesity, couldn't hold a job, engaged in petty thievery, lied and also had no friends...
...McCourt writes with the same mix of humor and sadness that sustained him through Angela's Ashes, but this time a sharper edge of anger and resentment accompany his stories. The maturing McCourt loses the playfulness and innocence of childhood, replacing it with his father's fondness for drink, an acute social awareness, and a searing sense of ambition...
...reminder, in this age of cynicism, that there is still an American dream. McCourt, at age 66 and after finding the strength to write from the voices of three African-American writers, ultimately achieves that dream with the publication of Angela's Ashes. But the undercurrents of anger and resentment that reverberate through the book show us the raw underbelly of that dream: the humiliation, the loneliness, the despair and the jealousy. McCourt's second novel does not exist as an extension of his first book, devoid of any meaning. Rather, it shows us that the American dream--romantic though...
...Democratic candidate debate may have been the bland leading the bland, but the GOP's five angry men were somewhat neutered by the absence of the object of their anger. "Perhaps in the future, in a forum like this, if we call it a fund-raiser he may show up," candidate Steve Forbes said cattily of the absence of Governor George W. Bush from Thursday night's Republican candidates' town meeting in New Hampshire. But then, as Senator Orrin Hatch quickly jabbed, Forbes is sufficiently endowed by his family fortune to avoid the trawling for millions among the special interests...
...understand the disappointment and anger you feel towards President Clinton, and I feel it myself," he said. "I also feel the American people want to move...