Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individuals ("Be Careful, There's a Baby in the House"), his religion ("Nice Jewish Girls"), his ambitions ("Saw Your Name in the Paper"), the emptiness of renewed past acquaintances ("Old Friend"), and, of course, ultimately himself (a trilogy on suicide). His concerts are not novel, but the controlled rage with which he sings his songs is. His bitterness about human inconsequence shows up in "Suicide Song...
Populism is a label that covers disparate policies and passions: among many others, New Deal reforms, consumer rage against business, ethnic belligerence. Often it is merely a catch phrase. Yet it describes something real: the politics of the little guy against the big guy-the classic struggle of the haves against the have-nots or the have-not-enoughs. The conflict was softened by the belief in permanent American prosperity and submerged by the global traumas of the past three decades. Now that the U.S. is looking inward once again, and learning that its wealth is not limitless, populism...
...panelists was Floyd McKissick, activist turned capitalist, formerly president of the Congress on Racial Equality and now president of McKissick Enterprises, Inc. When someone in the audience suggested that the Caucus should push for the development of non-profit companies to build housing for blacks, McKissick flew into a rage. Jumping out of his chair and waving his hands, he yelled, "There is nothing wrong with making money, with making a profit. We as black people have to put that notion aside." Several people suggested to McKissick that blacks should not get hung up in the same capitalist ethic...
...holds no fewer than nine titles-including Prime Minister, Defense Minister and commander in chief of the 22,000-man armed forces. Practically speaking, he has no opposition among the introspective, lethargic Libyan people, except perhaps at the University of Libya in Tripoli. Gaddafi stalked off in a towering rage not long ago, after students there disputed his explanations of Libya's mercurial foreign policy...
...Maja Winteler-Einstein tells about the prodigy's terrible temper, which caused his whole face-minus the tip of his nose-to turn yellow. Albert frightened off a violin teacher by throwing a chair at her, hurled a bowling ball at his sister, and in one fit of rage tried to "knock a hole" in her head with a toy trowel. "It is doubtless evident," wrote the harried Maja, "that a healthy skull is a necessity for the sister of a thinker...