Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer one lives, the more shame one has to experience." The old Japanese saying was quoted by a Tokyo reader, Goro Hara, in a letter to the English-language Japan Times. To a degree almost incomprehensible to Westerners, Japanese last week were still caught up in shock, shame and rage over the massacre at Israel's Lod Airport by three young Japanese radicals...
...merit is in Author Schmitt's economy of words (her description of 11th century Christendom: "Purified to small purpose at great cost"). Part of it, too, is the tantalizing, gradually unfolded history of marooned St. Cyprian: the early, apocalyptic piety, the later license, the hallucinogenic crops, the bloody rage. And finally the second cataclysm: the shock of realization and rebirth when Father Albrecht arrives with the news that the outside world exists after...
McGehee's terse speech consisted of six one-word rubrics-rage, reason, reading, laughter, lingering and love-with an average of 35 words each...
...rage: "Age and education give you the authority, citizenship the responsibility, to rage against the mediocrity and injustice in your society, more especially in yourself. Heed Dylan Thomas: 'Do not go gentle into that good night . . ./ Rage, rage against the dying of the light...
...tendency has been crystallizing for well over a decade. In 1960, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the high-profile white supremacist, had been ad dressing a crowd, surrounded by police. Like the Israeli guards, they searched the audience for danger, looking no doubt for the face of black rage. Verwoerd was shot by a mild white man who slipped through unsuspected. John and Robert Kennedy, whose enemies were supposed to be enlisted in a sophisticated right-wing conspiracy, were assassinated by naïfs associated with Cuban and Arab causes. Of all the recent assassinations, in fact, only Martin...