Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venezuela, the baseball fans express themselves in fiery terms: hundreds of candles twinkle in the stands when they are happy, bonfires rage in the concrete bleachers when they are mad. In the Dominican Republic, they swarm onto the field in such purposeful rage that offending umpires have fled in the police paddy wagon. In Cuba, they salute a good play by spraying spectators across the diamond with a fusillade of Roman candles...
...smoking, and often stinking, but yet all we have to let us go forward a few feet in a century." ¶I "Ahab [of Moby Dick] is only a rebel, not a Prometheus but rather like many a hero of early German sagas . . . capable of bursting asunder out of rage, and of playing the Samson unprovoked." ¶ "The German [scholar] insists, like so many children with their toys and first watches, on smashing the subject he is treating to see how it works." ¶"The overworked, driven person or class is seldom creative, while leisure, even wasteful leisure...
...seems an oriental counterpart to Van Gogh's; and like the European master, Affandi sometimes feels in blissful communion with nature while at other times his human passions boil up in sorrowing rage. His Javanese wife cares for his few worldly concerns and helps keep him on an even keel...
...mink coat, as an end in itself, is already old hat to a growing section of our population." Every woman now wants not just a mink, but a distinctive mink, just as she wants distinction in everything else, even to bathroom faucets, where the latest rage is "24-karat gold faucets shaped like swans and flowers...
Newspapers spoke of the nation's "rage and shame" and demanded swift police action; the Minister of Interior hinted that he might ban the German Reich Party (whose former Nazi leaders professed innocence). But the Socialist Neue Rhein Zeitung of Cologne complained that "all these telegrams and expressions of regret . . . seem to be prompted by the concern over the Cologne disgrace abroad." In a radio speech, President Heinrich Lubke blamed all Germans for an "overestimation of material achievement as opposed to intellectual, spiritual and moral values," and noted the continued prevalence in Germany of "arrogance, self-satisfaction and feelings...