Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...child." Despite that tone, he is basically a classic liberal, worried about elitism and the decline of equal education and opportunity. His New World symphonette is delivered in elegant cadences. "The future of the world lies with America," Fairlie believes, and "it would be a tragedy if, in the rage that must be endured, America wearied of its own idea." Much of Fairlie's book is a rich and occasionally cranky meditation on the ways in which Americans have retreated into self-gratification and a kind of infantilism. The popular culture, says Fairlie, has thoughtlessly absorbed...
...does not believe that the Government should guarantee every American a job, and he opposes the Humphrey-Hawkins bill that would commit the Government to bringing unemployment down to 3% within three or four years. To do that, Washington would have to spend so much that inflation would rage anew. But in some cases, Carter would have the Government make direct payments to industry to subsidize more jobs. If a company had to lay off workers, the Government could offer to pay part of their wages for a limited time. He argues that this would reduce the need for welfare...
Jackson's Hedda is nasty and coarse, a kind of anemic succubus. She is choking on her own rage, not fighting against her desperation. There is no sympathy in her. It is impossible to tell why men are so drawn to her. Hedda must be a woman of sensuous deceits. Jackson's is an arch, nearly campy portrayal, full of snarling asides of self-pity. The performance might work in The Little Foxes; here, it looks like parody...
...this passes Travis by. He has no organizing principle to his life. Experience floods him, but the distinctions blur. He can't understand why Betsy flees. To him it's just another betrayal, another failure, and his rage continues to mount. He prepares to assassinate Palantine...
...instantly leaks the psychopathy of everyday anguish all over us. He is a man working in a menial job that brings him into constant, envious touch with people more fortunate than he, a man enraged by the bad deal life has given him but unable to articulate that rage. Instead, he is given to fantasies ranging from the glumly sexual to the murderously violent. He is, finally, a man of muttered imprecations and sudden, brooding silences; which of these moods is most alarming is hard...