Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terrible shock to find the outside world invading your campus. Much of our class reacted with rage and chat. There were tee shirts, mass meetings in the stadium, discussions into the night. I can remember the photographs of the helmets gleaming...
...graduated two months later, and, though I wrote for The Boston Globe and The Atlantic Monthly about anti-war demonstrations that followed--including the Days of Rage in Chicago, when the Weathermen self-destructed in hail of rocks and bottles--I knew that the fun was over...
...Brown at Columbia, withShort (golden curls, white jeans, black boots) atHarvard. Short, who died 11 years ago of cancer,was a gentle anarchist. He would parade withplacards whose main purpose was to confuse. Thenhe moved to existentialism and agnosticism, and Ifollowed. He ended his magnificent piece on theDays of Rage this...
Above all, she brought a minute attention to the affectionate reassurances that keep friendship alive. Though capable of a holy rage when it was called for -- for instance, when a famous figure of the day weaseled out of a book he had promised her for Doubleday -- it gave her enormous pleasure to keep friendships in repair...
...involved in such episodes aren't eager to discuss them. But some acknowledge that the prospect of watching lifelong dreams shatter as the military shrinks can make them lash out in rage and frustration. "It stresses you out, but you can't hit the officers," an Army man says. "So you wait till you get home and take it out on her and the kids." Another soldier will only say of his wife that "we abused each other." In fact, the Army survey suggests that spousal abuse usually involves violence by both partners. But women, it notes, are far more...