Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also resolved his anger toward Warner Bros. He calls his 1992 contract with the company "a learning experience." The Artist wanted to release more than one CD a year; Warner Bros. thought that would dilute his work. The company also released two CDs of Prince material against his will--The Black Album (1994), a sharp-tongued CD that parodied rap and that Prince had famously shelved; and the uneven Come (1994), a collection of outtakes. The Artist was not amused...
Oddly, though, for all the stridency of the opposing ads, the anger so evident in the 1994 congressional results seemed to be muted this time. Certainly there was no absence of mudslinging; some of the races could rank with the dirtiest ever. But in a time of peace and prosperity there was little throw-the-bums-out spirit evident in the electorate. Quite the opposite: there appeared to be a disposition to let incumbents stay, which helped Republican Senators and Representatives almost as much as it benefited Bill Clinton...
...Grumpy old men had better watch their tempers. Those who have trouble controlling anger have three times as much risk of suffering a HEART ATTACK as mellower types. In personality tests, the men say they're irritable and hot-headed and generally have a desire to smash things...
...unchecked expression of impulses that arose by natural selection. During evolution, individuals with strong innate yearnings for food, sex and material goods did a better job of surviving and reproducing than individuals less drawn to these things. So we inherited genes conducive to such yearnings. In the same manner, anger (another of the deadly sins) became a naturally engrained tool of survival, aimed, for example, at those who would take our food or our mates...
...were often blunted by scarcity. Only amid the material abundance that came with agriculture and grew thereafter could self-indulgence regularly reach grotesque levels. (Sodom and Gomorrah lay in the fertile plains. Their residents sinned amid plenty while Abraham herded his flock in rustic innocence on dryer terrain.) Similarly, anger acquired a new layer of evil with the invention of knives and spears, to say nothing of guns...