Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rage, rage against the dying of the light...
...effect, a stern, unyielding common mother fiercely chastising an obstreperous child. Cobb is equally good at conveying the sense of age: he is old inside as well as outside. The years are numbered in his white hairs, but there is also the anguish of diminished manhood, the baffled rage at seeing his own young wield the force that was once solely his prerogative...
...give the reader comic insights into this special form of sportsworld hysteria. There are tales about golfers attacked by rams on the course, golfers breaking their legs after mighty swings, distance records for balls rebounding off caddies' heads, and the inevitable stories about the golfer's rage. Some golfers knock themselves out in their anger at a missed shot. Some punish their clubs, threatening to drown them or actually torturing them. Some, like the famed Lefty Stackhouse, spend their fury on the nearest object...
THESE THINGS happen to a reporter--the rage to participate in the events he is writing about and in the writing itself is sometimes hard to overcome. And when it is overcome, the aftertaste often is shame...
Real Difficult. Last week even Wallace had difficulty being Wallace. Campaigning in the Far West, he lost not only his audiences but his much treasured aplomb in the face of heckling. He nearly exploded with rage when a large group in San Diego made fun of him in a mass put-on. When he began his usual line on Communists, the hecklers obligingly chanted "Kill the Commies! Kill the Commies!" When he talked about law and order, they were just as ready with cheers for the "Police! Police...