Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These are days of rage in Israel's occupied territories. In the past two weeks, widespread unrest has not only turned the Gaza Strip into a war zone but also spawned strikes and violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Faced with the worst riots in the territories since seizing them in the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel responded with an iron fist. Pitched battles between rock- throwing demonstrators and gun-toting soldiers left at least 17 Palestinians dead and more than a hundred wounded. Since the violence started on Dec. 8, hundreds have been arrested and detained. Denounced...
Mountain brought Jimmy a considerable success when it was finally published in 1953, and that enabled him to put together a collection of his searing essays, Notes of a Native Son ("Each generation is promised more than it will get: which creates, in each generation, a furious, bewildered rage"). Then came Giovanni's Room, a rather purple novel about homosexuality. And then, in 1957, when French friends kept asking him to "explain Little Rock," where the U.S. Army had been summoned to escort nine black children to school through screaming mobs of whites, Jimmy finally decided "that it would...
...Shaker leader, Mother Ann Lee, whose followers believed she represented the second coming of Christ. Remember Mary Baker Eddy, severely injured by a fall on the ice, who became cured while reading a passage in St. Matthew and thereafter taught the unreality of all physical ills. Spiritualism was the rage of the 1850s, and a heroine of Henry James' The Bostonians went into mesmeric trances to gather recruits for the cause of feminism. Walt Whitman believed in transmigration of the soul -- "And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,/ (No doubt I have died...
...Puritan massacre of statues and pictures passed all reckoning. The idea that such things were in a sense the general aesthetic or historical property of the people -- which did something to mitigate the anticlerical rage of the French Revolution or the Bolsheviks in Russia -- did not arise in 17th century England, whose churches were stripped and gutted as thoroughly as those of Byzantium had been by the Frankish thugs of the Fourth Crusade...
Goldsmith can be ruthless in his pursuit of profits. "There is a lot of internal rage in Jimmy," says John Train, a New York financier who knows him well, and Goldsmith himself acknowledges, "When I fight, I fight with a knife." Yet he is rather different from the standard buccaneer. When Ivan Boesky moved uptown from Wall Street in 1985, he rented a suite of offices in the same building that housed Goldsmith's New York headquarters, 630 Fifth Avenue, and then asked for a meeting. "He spent most of his time telling me about all the contributions...