Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anger is the tactic that Stevens uses to appeal to the bereft parents. "Let me direct your rage," he asks the parents, without providing any concrete target. Even he is unsure who to blame: the town, the school board or the bus company. It only matters to him, and many of the survivors, that someone pay, even if he or she is not truly responsible...
...Zhang, a third-year graduate student studying genetics from Jiangu, founded the Harvard China Review--a new magazine that he hopes will encou rage scholarly discussion and present a balanced view on issues affecting China...
None of the year's mass responses could hold a candle in scope and complexity to the astonishing grief inspired by Princess Diana's car-accident death, of course. (There were even spin-off mass responses of rage toward the paparazzi, who trailed her car into the Paris tunnel, and of generosity toward the charities the princess sponsored.) But other major displays of widespread feeling occurred in the sorrow at the death of Mother Teresa, the anger at both verdicts in the Boston "au pair trial" of Louise Woodward, and the celebration at the birth of the McCaughey septuplets...
...child murders of the year, such as the killings in New Jersey (one by another child), the killings and shootings of and by schoolchildren in Mississippi and Kentucky, and the stories of newborns left in toilets or in Dumpsters ought to have aroused great public feelings of pity or rage. But they were defused at the outset by the fact that one knew they would be analyzed into the ground on TV. Everyone in America is on television. A child is killed, and moments later a distraught relative appears on camera perfectly composed because he or she has had plenty...
...going on in the (scientific) community of trying to ?shoot this down,? " Everett Gibson, co-leader of the agency's asteroid team, told the Associated Press. He added that he was "more convinced than ever" of the fossil's authenticity. And so the debate continues to rage ? to be settled, perhaps, only when the little green men come forward in person...