Word: choler
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...judgement." Connie Sachs, Circus Sovietologist beyond compare, "a huge, crippled cunning woman, known to the older hands as Mother Russia." Fawn, Smiley's recessive factotum and "scalp hunter"?professional killer; Craw, an old China hand of archbishoprical speech and mien, shamelessly based on the form and choler of Sunday Times Correspondent Richard Hughes: "We colonize them. Your Graces ... we are hideous not only in their sight, Monsignors, but in their nostrils." Ricardo, the mercenary Mexican pilot: " 'How it happened,' he said. 'Listen, I tell you how it happened.' And then I'll kill you, said his eyes." Smaller roles...
...days passed, Byrne's choler mounted. With increasing disdain he denied prosecution motions to block revelation of the reports. The last of the studies finally arrived, and after reading the five-inch stack of documents, Byrne ruled last week that the bulk of them had to be turned over to the defense. Reason: They tended to prove the innocence of Ellsberg and Russo on at least some of the charges. According to the Government analyses, said, the judge, 13 of the 20 documents that Ellsberg and Russo released did not damage the national defense in any way-a seeming...
...mirror. In the same way that the Impressionist tradition would stand a girl at the her in front of a mirror, Dater articulates the elements of reflections by photographing a seated, nude girl leaning against a mirror. Whether prostitute or dance-hall girl, she appears in triplicate with her choler and black stockings. We see her, fine, bony features straight-on and in profile, her legs bent to the right and to the left--symmetrically reposed--and openly exposed in the upper righthand corner. An umbrella in the lower right of the photo encourages further connections to Degas dancers...
However amusing, such extremism is not a healthy way to combat pollution. Neither is the kind of choler displayed by Fortney Stark Jr., a California banker who delivered one of the country's angriest speeches. "Throw a few chairmen of the board in jail," Stark declared, "and you'll see pollution disappear quite rapidly. You'd also probably see some pretty drastic prison reforms." Earth Week, though, should be a time of regeneration, not recrimination. This year, on the whole, it seemed headed in the right direction...
...father of "momism" in Generation of Vipers, Polemicist-Novelist Philip Wylie has a certain reputation to live up to. In his own way, he turned the crank letter into a literary form. In that eruption 29 years ago, he added to the sum of human choler by announcing, among other things: "Gentlemen, mom is a jerk...