Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fish tucked tight in either armpit, through infinitely intricate aqua-besques; but on land he was much more vulnerable. He met his end being bludgeoned to death by a bloodthirsty truck driver who took advantage of his tame, trusting nature. Writes Author Maxwell, with emotions of pain and rage that the reader cannot help but share: "I became fonder of him than of almost any human being, and to write in the past tense makes me feel desolate ... I hope he was killed quickly, but I wish he had had one chance to use his teeth...
...something to respect in the way it rings true. But there should be more to respond to, something with personal as well as sociological value; and the play's own self-created mood is shattered when at the end the girl bursts not into a blind, hurt personal rage but into an ideological harangue. It is as harmfully incongruousas if a small country hillock suddenly erupted with lava; and such lack of judgment suggests that much of Wesker's literalness derives from inherent lack...
...their social environment. It is not human nature that shapes man, argues Brecht, but his social relationships. What shapes the social relationships, if not human nature? That question Brecht, like most determinists, could not answer. But, unlike philosophers or sociologists, he did not have to. He could merely rage -or laugh...
Peter, in ironic rage...
...hyperbole. His Night of the Hunter (1954), a surefooted, poetic horror story of two children and a malevolent pursuer, was told with controlled passion. Now in The Watchman, Grubb has pulled out all the stops, piled terror on madness, disaster on helplessness. The book is a mixture of poetic rage against cruelty in man, a song in praise of physical love, a cry of despair at the blows dealt to the innocent young...