Word: furiousness
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...Though furious at the continued intransigence of the strikers, De Gaulle knew he might have to give in.**At a Cabinet meeting in Paris, he ordered studies drawn up comparing wages in private and government-owned industry, with an eye toward making adjustments. But he was still rankled at the monetary support given the strikers by the Roman Catholic Church in the northern coal areas. Asked where the funds would come from to pay for any wage hike, he suggested: "We could always take up a collection in the churches...
...Furious Craftsmanship...
...painting seriously in 1956 during his next-to-last year at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art. There, he had "tried the abstract thing for a while, but I always had to get back to people." Today, when he thinks of the new craze for pop art, he becomes "furious. When an artist paints a Campbell's Soup can, he may be saying something valid, but he cuts himself out as an artist. He is no better than the can." Goodman's own idols have always been Velasquez, Vermeer, Goya-and Rembrandt: "He paints a head...
...rain was the fact that it was from that self-acknowledged genius Henry Miller, 21 years older and not yet world-famous but already a coterie colossus dangerously engaged in living his autobiography in Paris. Indeed, the younger man regarded Miller as so great that he was "furious that people haven't simply burst in on your privacy and carried you off to found American literature at home." Compared with Tropic of Cancer, wrote Durrell to Miller, Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Joyce's Ulysses and Wyndham Lewis' Tarr were "feeble, smudgy rough drafts...
...game marked by long stretches of dull and sloppy hockey, short stretches of furious scoring, and too many penalties, the varsity hockey team held off a third period rally to down Yale 6-5 at the Boston Arena Saturday night. The victory gave the Crimson its third straight Ivy League title...