Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THAT WAS the tragedy of Robert Kennedy's last years -- the awful tension between his surfacing humane anger and the dictates of practical politics, a tension he stretched to the utmost limits. Robert Kennedy walking in the ghettoes was responding to more than the imperatives of politics; the rage welling up in him was sensed by all of us; we felt a certain bond of understanding even as we repudiated his political proposals. Tom Hayden, who wrote the original SDS charter in 1962, had spent a decade patiently explaining that the American crisis demanded a radical solution, that...
...channeled Brown's surrogate son into the swamps of Southeast Asia. Ubiquitous television sets keep vigil over three astronauts lost on a return flight from the moon. Murder in his mind, anguish in his heart, Brown must pace through his daily routine while mutely suffering Lear's rage at the fly that outlives Cordelia...
...Harris has captured the pathology of the present age with out gloating over it or surrendering to despair. His characters are victims, but they have shored large fragments of human vitality against their ruin. If Killing Everybody is uneven, it is also per meated by a compelling amalgam of rage and love...
...generation, and as a rather embittered and sentimental atavist there is passion in his every word. A bundle of fresh caricatures, Smitty can sound like a disgruntled Confederate general, or like William Loeb, the publisher of the Manchester Union Leader who expresses his most exquisite right-wing rage in capital letters. A gossip columnist, a backroom politician, a muckraking Galahad of journalism -- he conjures up images of a fierce American brashness that are endearing and real. Also, and less successfully, he is an echo of a literary past, a Hemingway, a Hawthorne, a Melville, a Twain. This whole side...
...wind-whipped waters of the North Sea usually roil in a fit of rage, the skies are oppressively gray, and the fog hangs on for weeks. Yet visitors are flocking to the sea's cold coastline as if it were the Riviera. They are coming to join the world's most frenetic rush for undersea oil and gas. No fewer than 350 companies and consortiums have begun putting up money for the search, investments expected to total $12.5 billion over the next ten years. Their ranks include such American giants as Exxon, Texaco, Mobil, Gulf and Phillips...