Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another concert featured Edgard Varese's Deserts, written in 1954. It shows its age today but in a strangely prophetic way: the synthesis of electronic-tape sounds and live music is now the rage among young avant-garde composers. By alternately contrasting the outer-space grunts and chitterings of his tapes with the conventional tones of live orchestra passages, Varese achieves an organized whole...
...Rage & Recognition. Worried for the safety of American citizens on the is land, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Frederick Picard quickly evacuated the Project Mercury Space Tracking Station outside Zanzibar Town and sent dozens of official personnel and dependents off to Tanganyika on a U.S. destroyer. But four American newsmen (including TIME'S William Smith) arrived in Zanzibar to provide a target for the government's wrath. The reporters sailed in on an Arab dhow and began asking questions. Karume, who wanted no visitors, had them placed under house arrest in the Zanzibar Hotel. When Picard intervened...
Lost Force. At his best, Aiken can suggest a mental atmosphere with compelling force. He was one of the forerunners of the still-current rage for Freudian fiction, an early psychological novelist who explored neurotic fear and sexual antagonisms with extraordinary restrained sensuality. Rich in inner soliloquy, barren of drama, his writing is most successful in evocative short stories (notably Silent Snow, Secret Snow, The Last Visit and Mr. Arcularis), where he is able to embody a single emotion in a single carefully worked image...
Monro's famous "wild parties and sexual intercourse" sentence brought vivid images to the mind of the News writer. His playful lead ("Sizzling sex parties--where the girls climb the walls right along with the ivy--are the current rage at Harvard") is followed by images of "Cliffies going "bed to bed" in the dorms, an unborn child fathered by "the whole damned football team of an Eastern college," and other similar incidents...
Gaffney, the chairman of the Quincy House American Table, and Rudman attributed Nicolaus' "shoving" to "pure hatred," uncontrollable rage," and an effort "to provoke Prado." Both Gaffney and Rudman urged that Nicolaus be committed to a mental institution...