Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times since the end of World War II had Franco felt the need to call for such a massive show of support. His purpose last week was not so much to intimidate the regime's enemies within Spain as to respond defiantly to the paroxysm of anti-Franco rage that swept Western Europe following Madrid's executions of five terrorists convicted of murdering policemen (TIME, Oct. 6). In this he succeeded. Flanked by his wife Carmen and his heir-designate Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, Western Europe's last remaining dictator...
...other Ukrainian political prisoners are scarcely known in the West. Elsewhere in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, other obscure and often heroic dissidents have also disappeared with equal finality into what George Orwell called "the memory hole." Only one case in a Communist country has provoked Western out rage commensurate with the reaction to the Spanish executions. That was when the death penalty was imposed on two out of eleven would-be hijackers in Leningrad in 1970. Western leaders chorused appeals for clemency. The Soviet supreme court ultimately commuted the sentences to 15 years at hard labor. Ironically...
...Chicane woman in Soledad, Calif., shot a man to death 27 minutes after he allegedly held her down during a rape, a smattering of feminists loudly applauded the act. Though troubled by this vigilante version of justice, Feminist Gloria Steinem asked: "But what do we do with our rage...
Americans are once again half in love with China. Senators now vie for invitations to Peking. Tourism to the People's Republic has gone from privilege to fad. Chinoiserie is the rage of the boutique. Indeed, in the situation ethics of detente, when President and Premier could chat like old comrades, it seems churlish to recall that the Communist takeover of China once precipitated something close to a national nervous breakdown...
...wife Dolores ("Body") Taylor (who starred with him in Billy Jack) must sometimes think she is living in a nightmare. Laughlin reveres her and their three children. Yet Body is often in tears after a session with Tom. "There's a bursting rage in Tom over the privations of his childhood," explains one of his friends. Laughlin grew up in Milwaukee; his parents were often on welfare. As a football player, he kicked his way through various Midwest colleges. It was not until he saw a production of A Streetcar Named Desire that he decided to become an actor...