Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This represented a 4.6% increase over the previous budget-scarcely enough to keep up with inflation and far less than the 12.2% average yearly boost in the Reagan administration. Tirelessly, Brown proselytizes for reduced spending, probing with Socratic questioning that leaves many listeners in a rage. He startled the University of California regents by dismissing their verbose academic plan as a "perfect example of the squid process: ink spread across the page in unintelligible wordlike patterns that tell me absolutely nothing." He suggested that University President-designate David Saxon take a cut in his scheduled $59,500-a-year salary...
...inspection trips because they anticipated that, invariably, it would bring them something better. Now they know it will bring them nothing but a few muttered apologies, and they reveal a palpable sense of abandonment. "Look at this! Look at this!" one father began to scream, his voice shaking with rage and emotion. "The water is filthy, the children have diarrhea, we have no food. Is this what America has left us?"As our Jeep pulled away from one group of people, a rock hit the windshield...
...scope of color and plasticity of drawing. With the recent triptychs and other paintings, his ambition to reinstate the human figure as a primary subject of art has been to some degree fulfilled. No other living artist can paint flesh at this pitch of intensity, in this extremity of rage, loss and voluptuousness, or with this command over pigment. His typical setting is familiar: an anonymous oval room. It has tubular furniture, somewhere between a Corbusier couch and an operating table. Sometimes a bare bulb hangs down on its cord from the ceiling. It looks both sadistic and as ideal...
Skinner's most important discovery while writing Walden Two is expressed through Frazier: "I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!' Eventually I realized that the subjects were always right. They always behaved as they should have behaved. It was I who was wrong. I had made a bad prediction...What a strange discovery for a would-be dictator that the only effective methods of control are positively reinforcing...
People who lose their jobs often suffer a loss of self-esteem and experience unfocused rage, and there is also the simple fact that an out-of-work father has to deal with his children more because he is at home. "Suddenly a man who used to see his child an hour or two a day is exposed to him for hours at a time," says Dr. Henry C. Kempe, director of the National Center. The fact that so many mothers now live with a man other than the child's father causes extra strain as well, says Kempe...