Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stood there. He just stood there. He would not sit down next to the black. Two adult males, living in the most highly industrialized, most technologically advanced nation in the world, a nation that had devastated two other industrial giants in World War II, faced each other in mutual rage and hostility. The white one wanted to sit down, but he was going to exert his authority and force the black one to get up first-so that they would not have to sit side by side. I watched the driver's face in the rearview mirror...
...HARA'S LIFE and writings had not been so wild and iconoclastic, the gaps in context and continuity in Frank MacShane's recent biography, The Life of John O'Hara, A Rage to Live, would be fatal. As it is, the book reads more like a novel than a biography. The narrator, choosing a limited point of view, does not fill in many...
MacShane's presentation of O'Hara's novels places him among the ranks of Masterplots contributors. While the bare essentials necessary for understanding a cognescenti's critique of A Rage to Live are present, for example, the reason for O'Hara's choice of lubricious sexual lives of Harrisburg residents as a subject remains obscure...
...shame that only at the very end of what had been a 321-page neutral magazine article filled with cold description, does Anderson finally take a position and comment on the justified rage we should feel over the marijuana story. Even without commentary we can glean from the accounts of Stroup's exploits that a major miscarriage of justice is being kicked around like any other political football. In fact, High in America will probably appeal to the straight-as-an-arrow gov major who is interested in the story of a political entrepeneur like Keith Stroup...
...knowing what to expect from the strangers they live with, Americans begin to marinate in paranoia and suppressed rage. Crime combines fatally with inflation to subvert the old American hope, the idea that virtue, saving, obeying the law are rewarded, not punished. Psychologically intensifying the horrific reality of crime, the local TV news teams project it directly into the American fantasy life, the air filled with such vivid playlets of violence and death and fire and gore that children begin to grow up thinking that the world outside the front door is profoundly menacing-not the old America...