Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loved One is by no means the subtle and cold-blooded rage at the perversion of death and love which some subtle and raging people suppose it to be. It is Evelyn Waugh caught between laughter and vomiting. The story of the patriotic pretensions and fussy snobbishness of the British film colony is grade A Waugh. Less artful is the travelogue of the intricate inanities of Whispering Glades, from the voice of a nightingale piped through the grounds and mortuary buildings to the Lake Isle of Innisfree, complete with nine rows of beans and beeless beehives with electric buzzers (burial...
...creamy trade name for a corpse. A tale of love and suicide among the morticians of a cemetery that physically resembles Hollywood's fabulous Forest Lawn (TIME, Aug. 24, 1942), The Loved One was either Novelist Waugh's most funereal horse laugh or a retch of glacial rage at two of America's most cherished deceits-its effort to prettify death and to vulgarize love, and hence escape the impact of both. Intellectuals were bitterly divided over Waugh's intention. But the book, which was richly laced with the fun of embalming fluid, might well become...
...series of sketches showing a duel between centaurs, which ended with the loser crumpled across a broken arrow and the horned winner looking downcast. The figures were almost all distorted, but never cruelly so. The surprising twists of their bodies seemed to spring from inner drunkenness rather than artistic rage. Picasso had pulled and twisted their limbs like taffy, but in making them pinheaded, they also seemed agreeably lightheaded...
Comrade Molotov, the Mayor of Broadway, was the kind of soldier who could make an officer jump up & down with rage and then pin a medal on him. There was hardly a dogface in the 9th Division who didn't know him or hadn't heard of him. Few knew that he got his mail addressed to Pvt. Karl C. Warner. None knew that his real name was Karl Petusky...
...bullets did not rage as hot last week as the war of communiques. But behind the curtain of Arab and Jewish censorship, men & women were fighting and dying. For the most part, both Jews and Arabs stayed within the partition boundaries, fixed by U.N., but Israeli* forces captured Acre in the north, fanned out toward the Lebanese border, and attacked Arab Ramie near Tel Aviv in an effort to open the lifeline road to Jerusalem's Jews...