Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...default, the alternative becomes organizing against the university. In this way, campus rage is self-contained and frivoled away on college presidents and non-issues. The most seductive non-issue is ROTC- even on campuses where it no longer exists- for it provides a context for "political organizing...
Leigh Woods' portrayal of King Leontes was one excellent feature of this production. He dominates the opening third of the play which centers around the suspected infidelity of his queen Hermoine and his brother King Polixenes of Bohemia. Leontes's jealous rage leads to his wife's execution (only faked as we later discover) and the banishment of her infant child. Perdita, Fair Perdita grows up in the care of simple shepherds, while her father exercises his sins in stern contrition...
...protesters was shouting the old chant "1-2-3-4-we don't want your -- war"; one girl-she could not have been more than 15-was taking particular delight in shrieking the obscene adjective loudly at the cop. The word was hardly new, but her strangely misdirected rage was. It was surely...
...single scene for ten minutes at a time. The results are often stunning, but frequently they tend to be ostentatious, sacrificing humanity for setting. His characters ultimately become cold symbols, seen from a distance. But this, after all, is his intention. Their coldness is the cutting edge of his rage...
...habit of placing concepts in convoluted categories only slightly obscures the author's anxiety about violence and its personal consequences. She sympathizes with the contemporary rage against such things as the war-prone tendency of technology and bureaucratic "rule by Nobody." She understands the "this-is-the-way-the-world-ends" feeling of today's youth as it contemplates the possibility of environmental disaster or atomic war. Though the causes of rebellion and violence often seem just, the use of violence obviously dismays her. "Power and violence are opposites," she writes. "Where one rules absolutely, the other...