Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blowing incessantly, desiccating the town and the vineyards, pausing only to howl at a higher pitch, is a "furious monotonous purposeless wind"-hence the book's title. It is the breath of a malevolent universe and carries the inevitability of human defeat...
...Mirsky himself acts as leader for these raucous rhapsodes, and they keep the emotional pitch at a consistently high level. The play is not a continuing story, but a melange of speeches, scuffles, and flashbacks; Mr. Mirsky's direction keeps it together, keeps it moving, keeps it loud and furious as it should...
...Furious at the acquittal, Castro exploded that "it has been a grave error of the revolutionary tribunal to absolve those criminal pilots." He had Chief Defense Counsel Aristides Dacosta hauled in by rebel troops and flown to military headquarters in Havana for a talking-to. He sent his bearded Defense Minister, Augusto Martinez, to Santiago to organize a "review" court. The new verdict: 30 years at hard labor for the pilots, lesser terms for non-pilots. Two were acquitted...
...Rhee was furious. He ordered his emissaries to break off negotiations with Tokyo. Crowds chanting "Down with Japanese Imperialism" shouldered through Seoul's streets. Opposition Democrats, dropping their fight against Rhee's harsh new police law, proclaimed their solidarity with the government against "Japan's unilateral and inhuman plan to send Koreans to Red slavery...
...share the glory. The Directorio Revolucionario, a student group backed by onetime President Carlos Prio, which had its own band of guerrillas in the central Cuban mountains, worried that adulation for Castro might turn him into a swellhead dictator. The Directorio insisted on stockpiling guns for itself. Castro grew furious, ordered the students to turn over the arms. Outgunned, they complied...