Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost control when singing either loudly or high. Less noticeable in Eilen Repp, contralto, and Harold Haugh, tenor, the lack of control again appeared in Bass John Metcalf. His usual clarity deserted him almost completely during the intricate chromatics of the aria, "Why do the nations so furiously rage together...
...picture's production tricks are obvious enough but very effective: no one ever moves without glancing back over his shoulder; the camera eye blurs with rage as Powell's fists beat & beat at the villain's face; the screen goes black while the hero fumbles about in a dark room ; two characters hold an important conversation near a subway track so that nearly every sentence is suspensefully interrupted by the roar of a passing train...
...again at 65. The old lion stalked into the conference with a roar. Soon he had the A.F. of L.'s President Bill Green, once a mortal enemy, agreeing with everything he said. He had the C.I.O.'s President Phil Murray, once a bosom friend, sputtering with rage. For a while he had industry's delegates so charmed that a wisecracker observed: "John L. could be elected president of the National Association of Manufacturers without a dissenting vote...
Submission & Rage. When she wanted to get out of her engagement at 17, she let her mother persuade her to go on with a marriage that turned out all but disastrous. Her mother-in-law lived with them. Her own mother would not take her part when she quarreled with her husband. Toward both her mother and mother-in-law her attitude was "a mixture of precarious dependence and violent but suppressed rage...
Because the Tilletts were fine craftsmen their textile designs became fashion's rage in Mexico. In no time at all they were in the chips. Both got married; Leslie to a girl from New York, Jim to lush, dark Nieves, model for some of Diego Rivera's best nudes...