Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rage. The news sent Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard, the Pentagon's procurement administrator, into a hot rage. He was angered at Grumman for not putting up danger signals earlier, though Evans says that he "outlined" his cost problems to Navy officials as far back as September 1969. Behind closed doors in his E-ring Pentagon office, Packard repeatedly chewed out Navy brass for failing to give him early warnings of Grumman's troubles. Some of the officers present during these sessions later called Packard "unreasonable." One result of the mess is that Vice Admiral Thomas F. Connolly...
What wonder then that pure blind rage-the feeling that " there is some shit I will not eat " -drove many into an action that both unjust and stupid...
...disruption of the Teach-in proved practically indefensible: most students who disrupted had followed an ad hoe strategy compounded of impotence and blind rage, and they did little organizing before or after the event. The ball landed in the Administration's court, and Harvard fielded it well. The Faculty Council issued a statement, and the Deans blitzed the Houses with mini-teachings on free speech and the liberal university...
january, 1970 bobby baby- just got our hands on the Basement Tapes and wanted to let you know (before the grass grows between our toes) we think they're dynamite. DYNAMITE. fanTAStic. you've never sounded better, bubble, tears of rage is 8ooo sweet. it could break our heart in two. but like they say, money talks, bullshit walks. the point is break with Al Grossman (what did he ever give you anyway except your first million?) and let us market The Tapes. we have a deal we could set up at the psychedelic supermarket in hollywood would make Grossman...
...Australian reef. In the last reel, the prep-school Ahab finally spots his béte blanche, and both drama and cinema achieve an almost hallucinatory suspense. The crew is lowered in barred aluminum cages. The sharks, at first floating like malignant dirigibles, suddenly bash the metal in rage and frustration. It is more than a cinematic high. It is a justifiable anthropomorphism, a juxtaposition of hunter and hunted that Melville, or for that matter Moby-Dick, would have savored...