Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the world's first uranium pile. Within it, if all went well, would rage the first nuclear chain reaction. Physicist Enrico Fermi, Italian-born Nobel Prizewinner, was sure that all would go well. He had figured every smallest detail, advancing through theory and mathematics far into the unknown...
...Artists Imbeciles? Then, 20 years ago, the master stopped measuring; his art grew more & more violent, more & more like pure emotion. He twisted women, dogs, Greek heroes, horses and table lamps into paroxysms of rage or frustration. He built monuments of painted bones, drew "pictures" that were nothing but dancing lines and dots, made a "Bull's Head" out of a bicycle seat and handle bars. He protested the German bombing of Guernica (in the Spanish Civil War) with a massive mural whose ugliness is its strength. "What do you think an artist is?" asked Picasso. "An imbecile...
...have been stealing such gags-and even worse ones-from each other since the 1870s, when the Lampoon and Yale Record were born. These college magazines reached a heyheyday in the hip-flasked, short-skirted '20s, when John Held Jr.'s flat-chested flappers were all the rage and Judge and the old Life were the thing to copy. The jokes had not changed much since, but the imitative style had. In the depression, many became introspective, proletarian, or both; others took to aping Esquire and got suppressed for it. This year most campus editors seemed to have...
...Rage in Heaven--Bergman again, with Robert Montgomery this time. Now at Loew's State and Orpheum...
...British Government called the statement "most unfortunate," said it "may well jeopardize a settlement in Palestine." In a towering rage, mild Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister, sent a sharp personal note of protest to Truman, went to his country home, Chequers, to cool off for the weekend. Britons professed to fear that Truman's statement would incite Palestine Jews to new disorders and uncompromising demands. The Jewish underground army had already ended the "truce" of nonviolence. Arab leaders angrily attacked the Truman plan, said it could only be forced through if backed by half a million U.S. troops...