Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Action. There was a brief burst of scattered applause, but most of the 1,950 prelates present were clearly stunned. Angrily they poured down from their tiered seats to the floor of St. Peter's. Albert Cardinal Meyer of Chicago, normally calm and introverted, was livid with rage. He and most other bishops knew that the "many fathers" consisted of only 120 or so conservatives, mostly Italian, and that they had had plenty of time to consider the declaration; the conservative-oriented theological commission had approved the final draft. "Let's not stand here talking," snapped Bishop Francis...
...many of which sound like something right out of science fiction. While a man dons his suit of orlon and his socks of Spandex in the morning, his wife may be wriggling into a Lycra girdle, an Antron slip, Cantrece hose-or the Warner "body stocking," a new fashion rage made of Du Font's stretch nylon...
Done-for World. With that, the entire Calcutta establishment rose up in rage. Newspaper editorials, quoting passages from their works, proved conclusively that they were dangerous and dirty-so much so that Calcutta's reading public began to look for them. Under civic pressure, the police hauled away 26 of the "poets" for questioning. Five were suspended from their jobs and booked on charges of obscene writing and conspiracy against society...
...Beckmann had given up painting as an "unpardonable luxury," confining himself to the production of some twenty-four etchings. Toward the end of his convalescence, however, his passion to paint returned. The war had provoked in him a scream of horror, a scream of fear, a scream of rage, a scream of protest--a violent screaming of the senses which could only be resolved with colors and shapes on canvas. His painting of the "Descent from the Cross" (1917), showing the removal of a hopelessly abject and skeletal Jesus by two men grimacing with revulsion, sums up his post...
...most of Waugh's books have vad as their real subject the loss of a golden age. Looking back, the Oxford Vlnd Mayfair targets Waugh satirized in Viene '20s and '30s have largely vanished, Baking with them half the early novels' Viumor but leaving the rage intact. After World War II he suddenly turned eariest: Brideshead Revisited is a frankly logic lament for the passing of a golden youth and innocence. Most read mourned the change...