Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henrik Ibsen kept a live scorpion in an empty beer glass on his writing table. "From time to time the brute would ail; then I would throw in a piece of ripe fruit, on which it would cast itself in a rage and eject its poison; then it was well again." As usual in an Ibsen scene, opera glasses are not needed to recognize the symbolism. Tiny, armored, venomous, Ibsen was an ailing spirit whose dramas stung the 19th century's conscience and gave European theater a new seriousness. After launching into poetic tragedy (Brand, Peer Gynt), Ibsen imported...
...military school as a kind of private reformatory for unruly youngsters, as such celebrated former students as Truman Capote and J.D. Salinger have bitterly testified. "If I catch you messing around with girls in any way," a mother tells her son in John O'Hara's A Rage to Live, "I'm going to send you to a military school in Virginia . . . They beat the boys and feed them slop, and keep them busy from six in the morning to nine at night...
...John Osborne)-is pierced by nostalgia when the old writer reminisces about damp England, colonial days, his own youth when he never really felt young. The latter-day equivalent of Jimmy Porter, a visiting American hippie, can only splutter four-letter words in return, the abstract tokens of a rage that is blind and almost dumb...
...Mount Etna. Projected only a few years ago as the Milan of the south, the city today is overwhelmed by seemingly unsolvable credit difficulties. Voters there gave the neo-Fascists an impressive 21.5% of the vote. "It was a corrivo," said a worker. The word means "a boom of rage...
...trouble-as all readers of Southern novels know-is that the times are achanging. Northern industry, bringing Northern liberals, invades Hester's town. Black sons return from college, articulate with rage. Even the old Uncle Toms no longer shuffle the way they used...