Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...release, and submits even more servilely to the daily humiliations in order not to jeopardize it. His mind is wholly filled with the expectation of domestic happiness, meeting his wife, his family. He never questions the authority that jailed him in the first place. There is no hint of rage or rebellion. The very introduction of the Antigone plot introduces a note of ambiguity, a possible justification of the South African regime...
American workers have rarely vented their rage on the machine in the manner of English Luddites. Nor, surprisingly, have American trade unions ever shown serious interest in redesigning jobs or in "humanizing" work. From the start, what the American worker did seek was a reduction in the hours of work...
...recently expelled U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton on charges that he was plotting to overthrow the government, had complained heatedly about Carter's having been in direct contact with the rebels. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reviewed the record and according to an associate, flew into a "towering rage...
Freddy (Stockard Channing) is bored and neglected by the pair, whose constant bickering suggests that Freddy was just an excuse for them to marry each other. After an afternoon in bed with first Oscar, then Nicky, she finally explodes in a vaudeville-style rage, dumping a sinkful of dirty plates and ten pounds of bird food on the two men, who are wrestling on the floor, ignoring her until she screams, "I'm going to give it all away! To charity!" Nicky's rejoinder--"Let's not go off half-cocked, now." Her snappy comeback--"The scales have fallen from...
...their age group. By now, the percentage has certainly climbed far higher. Recently, the Navy's Center for Prisoner of War Studies published the results of a research project showing that ex-P.O.W.s' marriages break up for many reasons. The range goes from the rage of returned servicemen learning of their wives' infidelity to the reluctance of wives to give up the independence they learned to enjoy while their husbands were away. Kroboth is one of the many ex-P.O.W.s who were caught by surprise by women's liberation: he says he could...