Word: pent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential timber, couldn't even become department chairman. He is as impressive in what he holds back as in what he gives. The role, like that of Othello, needs careful control, and the player must not let go full steam too soon. Hill is wonderful at conveying the pent-up pressure that finally bursts forth into "total...
...more basic factor, some Detroiters insist, is that the consumer now has an uncommonly big backlog of spare cash; in 1960, savings accounts in the U.S., which had long been growing at a steady $10 billion-a-year clip, suddenly increased by $20 billion. This created a pent-up buying potential, which needed only to be triggered...
...writes on politics, he secedes not only from society but sometimes from the facts. In Drawing the Line, a collection of essays on civil disobedience, Goodman scarcely mentions Communism as a cause of the cold war. By Freudian analysis, he traces the origins of the cold war to the pent-up emotions of Americans that must have aggressive outlets. After damning nearly everybody from J. Edgar Hoover to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for continuing the cold war, Goodman announces his own cure for cold war tensions: "An occasional fist fight, a better orgasm, friendly games, a job of useful work, being...
...barrier. What brought them to the boil was the death of 18-year-old Peter Fechter, shot while trying to cross the Wall. Many an East Berliner had died in similar efforts, but Fechter bled slowly to death in full view of a helpless, outraged crowd. Suddenly, all the pent-up frustrations exploded in an orgy of riots. After venting their anger on the detested East German border guards, rock-hurling, catcalling West Berliners battled their own police, stoned Russian soldiers, and shouted insults at harassed U.S.troops...
Whatever the merits of the bird man's case (at 73, he now is confined at the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo.), Bird Man of Alcatraz is an impressive movie. Director John Frankenheimer makes graphic the crushing sterility and despair of prison existence, the way the pent-up longing for life and freedom fastens touchingly on tiny things. As an infant canary kicks and squirms its way out of its natal shell, the owner-inmate lights up a cigarette butt, as a proud father would a cigar...