Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the French returned, Ho ordered Giap as Commander in Chief of the North Viet Nam army to meet General Jacques LeClerc at the airport. Giap flew into a towering rage, ranting that he would never shake hands with any Frenchman. Uncle Ho listened for a while and then said: "You have two hours before his plane arrives, so why don't you go into the corner and cry your eyes out. But be at the airport." Giap went. But such emotional outbursts led Ho to leave Giap at home when he went off to Fontainebleau to negotiate with...
Paul Scott, a literary agent turned writer, specializes in the novel of sensibility (The Bender; The Corrida at San Felhi). This one, set in India in 1942, tells of a brash, big-boned English girl with a rage to live and a notion that flouting convention is the way to do it. Self-consciously she befriends a bright, embittered Indian boy; surreptitiously they become lovers. The relationship infuriates the English community and sets a bad example for the peasantry-at least for four Hindu hooligans who rape her one summer evening. The attackers escape, the Indian boy is vindictively jailed...
...only about five hours in jail. Still fighting hard, Renga wasted no time obtaining a writ of beas corpus that freed Nancy on own recognizance until a higher court reviews her case this week. Whatever her fate, Judge Kearney has triggered public debate in California that is likely to rage for quite awhile...
...priest beyond pointing out that he had trousers on under his chasuble. It acknowledges: "I did not understand that one might sincerely weep for a relative . . . if I met a woman of fifty overcome with sadness because she had lost her mother, I thought her neurotic." Then her rage against the fact of death asserts itself. "There is no such thing as a natural death . . . you do not die of being born, nor from having lived, nor from old age." To which the only answer is that there is such a thing. Man does die of being born, from having...
...epigraph, the author quotes Dylan Thomas' splendid hymn to his dying father: "Do not go gentle into that good night. / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage rage against the dying of the light. . . ." Perhaps Simone de Beauvoir's rage against death was, as it explicitly was for Dylan Thomas, a form of prayer...