Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prime Minister of Israel was in a rage. Standing before the Israeli parliament, his back erect, Menachem Begin lifted his right arm into the air and repeatedly pounded his fist on a table for emphasis. "For you, Mr. President," he declared, addressing his remarks to an American President 6,000 miles away, "this is a political matter. You need to get closer to Saudi Arabia. Maybe you need to shake hands with King Hussein [of Jordan] after he was on no-speaking terms with your predecessor, Mr. Carter." Then, drawing himself even straighter, the Prime Minister shouted...
Anxiety about strange living conditions, confusion about administrative and geographic landscape, inability to decipher course catalogue, awkwardness of long-distance calls with hometown sweetheart, hopeless infatuation with face in Union, frustration at lack of infatuating faces, difficulty balancing need to sleep with need to attend classes, rage at Expos teacher who completely missed the point...
...rage, violence and bloodshed, and it proved again that Solidarity and the spirit the union embodied were far from cowed. In cities and towns across Poland, demonstrators turned out by the tens of thousands last week to commemorate the birth in 1980 of the now suspended Solidarity...
...winning a lot more cases, in part because they are concentrating their efforts on the career criminals responsible for a disproportionate share of street crime. Between 1972 and 1979 in Chicago's Cook County, felony convictions increased 470%. Many trial judges, roused by fierce, if glancingly focused public rage, have been imposing longer sentences. In New Jersey, the average prison sentence is 40% longer than that given four years ago, and the number of sentences increased in just one year from less than 14,000 to 18,000. Then there is the matter of parole. Four states have done away...
...about that too, about those same themes of isolation. It's called An Evening of Brahms. It's about New York in the '60s. The story is very simple. The young woman is a pianist, and she contracts cancer, and her husband leaves her, in a rage, before she dies. And after she dies, he conducts a performance of the Brahms Requiem, and the last part of the novel is entirely about what's going through his mind. And it's a novel about the fact that there is no day of judgment after death...