Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yasser Arafat, whose Al-Fatah commandos last month provoked the latest round of internecine bloodshed by attacking rival guerrilla organizations in several cities, has been desperately trying to redirect the fraternal rage. In an attempt to reconcile the warring factions, he called for the creation of a unified "armed forces of the Palestinian movement" that would join the commandos in a new assault on Israel...
...other reasons for rage. Both of his books had been commercial flops, and his family began to tire of his ambition and their deprivation. "I came to the point where I was terribly angry at my wife, at my brothers and sisters, at my mother," he remembers, "because nobody was on my side in this struggle. Then I sat down one day and said, why should they care because of my eccentricity? What did it have to do with them? They were perfectly right in the way they felt, and I was perfectly right in the way I felt...
...Sunbelt, anywhere. Citizens could paraphrase the municipal hymn New York, New York: "The Bronx is up/ And the battery's dead." They envisioned weeds pushing up through the stones of Rockefeller Center, Roseland reverting to jungle. Watching the parade of garbage strikes and pedestrians high-stepping in a rage among the dogmerde, New Yorkers could imagine themselves being a little like the sailors on Joseph Conrad's Narcissus, helpless in a gale: "[They] had the aspect of invalids and the gestures of maniacs...
...York could be judged by a reading of its Anger Quotient. In the late '60s and early '70s the city fairly smelled of rage; the 1974 film Death Wish-about a white liberal turned vigilante-revenger -received a certain amount of sneaking sympathy at the dinner parties of the white middle class. Since 1976 the Anger Quotient has gone steadily downward. A decrease in violent crimes has been partly responsible. A walker in Central Park is as likely to be overrun by joggers as assaulted by muggers. New York has the fifth highest major crime rate among...
...Jimmy Carter thought that that would soothe A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, he was mistaken. Meany grumbled that the 6½% postal workers' settlement, rightly hailed by the Administration as an example of wage moderation, had been too low-and on hearing that, Carter flew into a rare rage. At a press conference, Marshall said that Meany's remarks had "personally disturbed" the President and that his stand could lead to "more inflationary demands." Meany's response was immediate: "I've called it as I saw it. I don't intend to change...