Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLACK RAGE by William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs. 213 pages. Basic Books...
Charles G. Bluhdorn, chairman of merger-minded Gulf & Western, explains the rationale behind that current corporate rage-the conglomerate company-in disarmingly simple terms. "If you have all your eggs in one basket, you're stuck with those eggs," says Bluhdorn. "But if you've also got apples and bananas, that's something else." Following that formula, Bluhdorn, James Ling of Ling-Temco-Vought, Harold Geneen of ITT and several others have traced the tracks of such conglomerate pioneers as Litton and Textron across industry lines into movies and machinery, aircraft and auto parts, cigars, cybernetics...
...most menial and degrading jobs, and he lived in desperate resentment. He certainly had no stake in the Civil War; indeed, it was the news that he would be subjected to a draft lottery, while well-heeled citizens could buy exemption for $300, that finally sparked frustration into rage and sent him into the streets...
...thousand legends and traditions, the French glory in a revolutionary past. Between bouts of rage, they are also a profoundly conservative people. Last week a decisive number of Frenchmen in Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic showed that they are not anxious to repeat their past right now. In elections for a new National Assembly, the French turned their backs on revolution, at least of the sort that France's young leftists and anarchists had in mind. Only a few short weeks ago, in early May, a revolt started among students at the Sorbonne and spread to workers...
William Maitland is a 39-year-old London solicitor who has gazed into the broken mirror of his life and gleaned the terrifying knowledge that he is "irredeemably mediocre." With an irascible wit and a fanged tongue, he spews out tirades of paranoia. A self-pitying child of rage and fear, he drowns his panic in alcohol. He courts oblivion in lust-the bed is his womb and his coffin. He wakes with jittery remorse to smell death's bad breath at dawn. On the self-accusing charge of having made his existence an obscenity, this anti-hero sits...