Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRIEDA LAWRENCE, edited by E. W. Tedlock Jr. The letters, essays and memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife etch her as a Lawrencian nymph who drove the prophet of free sex to Victorian rage...
Forces Foreseen. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was an intensely human hero. He was easily moved to rage or tears; he delighted in mischief and rushed headlong into many an action that he was later to regret. If he was an Elizabethan in deed and spirit, he was implacably Victorian in his ideals and dedi cation to duty. When he became Prime Minister at the nadir of his nation's fortunes in 1940, he was 65-older than any other Allied or enemy leader. He had held more Cabinet posts than any other Briton in history; he had seen more...
Fearful Contradictions. Like Moses from the mountain, Swift came raging out of the peat bogs to cry doom and damnation on the idolatrous race of men. He is God's angry man, a prophet of the wrath to come who screams with infernal glee as he opens the vials of vituperation on the heads of humankind. His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust. His wit is an indentured imp that leaps to any bidding-it can tickle the funny bone, attack with acid, fry living flesh on a deadpan, reach down the throat of a corpse and come...
Swift's rage destroyed human beings, but it created literature. Night after night the old churl sat by a snug fire in his splendid mansion and wrote hate letters to a world he chose to think had cheated him. In 1726, after six years of meticulous composition, he published Gulliver's Travels, the most profound and powerful satire ever written in English...
...with a comely actress, Florence Deshon, whose temperament was much like his: she had once caused a near-riot in a theater by refusing to rise for the Star Spangled Banner. The affair was a stormy one; as Eastman torridly tells it, heaven-shattering passion alternated with earth-shaking rage...