Word: furiousness
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...ever emancipated, it would kick up a stir. After all, Bennett, the executive editor of Ebony and the author of such works of black history as Before the Mayflower (1962), has long been one of America's most eloquent voices on racial issues. And the target of his furious screed is perhaps the most revered figure in American history. Putting the two together seemed like a surefire recipe for controversy...
These facts are not new, of course, in part because other historians have responded to a furious anti-Lincoln article Bennett wrote for Ebony in 1968 by providing less heroic profiles of the 16th President. What's new is Bennett's emphasis. As he writes, even now some white scholars tend to consign the unflattering truth about Lincoln's racist ideals to "footnotes and asides." Glory rips off the cover. And yet, since it was published in February, Glory has been met with what Bennett calls a "conspiracy of silence." By last week not a word had appeared...
Bennett added an insurance goal two minutes into the fourth, and it turned out the Crimson would need it. The Wolverines staged a furious rally, striking four times in the quarter, and Karjala's fifth goal of the game whittled the lead to 9-8 with under a minute to play. But Harvard found one more defensive stand in its season and stopped the rally in the final seconds...
...citizens wanted to own stock options--until the so-called Jaffre affair exploded. That scandal was sparked by oil giant TotalFina's successful takeover of rival Elf-Aquitaine, and the $35 million stock-option package paid to vanquished Elf CEO Philippe Jaffre to bless the union and walk away. Furious French leftists--who derailed earlier government plans to lower the tax rate on stock-option earnings from 40% to 26%--responded with an unsuccessful campaign to hike the tax rate an additional 10 percentage points, to 50%. A subsequent report by two socialist legislators recommended that the option tax rate...
...Scott meticulously recreates the world of ancient Rome, capturing the most minute details from the bustling streets to the massive Coliseum. And the numerous gladiator battles are quite spectacular, capturing the split-second barbarity through a combination of the realist "skip-frame" technique from Saving Private Ryan and the furious, in-your-face editing style Oliver Stone employed in Any Given Sunday...