Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...route to the station, Lindsay listened to the program over his car radio with increasing rage. When he finally arrived, he delivered a steamy counterattack. Then Gray needled the mayor about illegally parked cars near the studio-autos that bore no traffic tickets. Lindsay retorted: "Why didn't you report them?" Finally, after a lecture to Gray on civic responsibility, the mayor stood up and grumped out of the studio. Spotting a limousine awaiting another of Gray's radio guests parked in front of the Madison Avenue building housing the studio, Lindsay shouted at the bewildered chauffeur: "Whose...
...view them with disgust or satirical malice. He was powerfully attracted by strange faces and would sometimes follow some chance passer-by all day long in order to memorize his countenance. His pen caricature of five grotesque heads shows five prototypes of stupidity, cruelty, narrow-mindedness, arrogance and rage...
...time when many artists have become so detached that they try to banish the figure al together, and sculptors can order their works from the nearest hardware store, a growing number of gifted artists are deeply and emotionally committed to ex pressing their distaste for the world, embodying their rage and resentment in powerful if often ugly images...
...this effect of paralysis in the face of enormous wrong, this apparent lack of any means to control and deter, prolonging itself year after year, that drives men--good men--to single acts of rage and desperation; acts which bear no relation to their ordinary day-to-day conduct...
...seems to me that it ought to be possible, it is possible, for this university to stand firmly on its own best principles (as the President did in Washington last month), and nevertheless--without prejudice to these principles--be magnanimous to those who are driven to fits of rage and folly, to symbolic acts of desperation, in the face of wrongs that year after year after year simply have not yielded, and do not yet yield, to reason and good will...