Word: raged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PAINTERS OF RAGE & STORM...
...British company came over with Othello, the pit howled: "Down with Shakespeare! Just one of Wellington's toadies!" Only six years later, "the atmosphere had completely changed." An artistic revolution had changed France from the last outpost of Classicism to a spearhead of Romanticism. Shakespeare was all the rage, closely followed by Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Schiller. France's poets, painters, sculptors and novelists all joined hands in this insurrection, but one and all acknowledged as their leader one of literary history's most spectacular figures-Victor-Marie Hugo...
...matter with those jerks?' Well, I've been sitting in groups and committees and riding in car pools with State guys, listening to them and arguing with them. I can appreciate their problems, and I guess they know I have some too. I won't rage at them in the future. I know they're trying to do the same thing I am-help this country...
...refused to sing until somebody brought a couch on stage for him to lie on. Hungarian Sandor Konya, rehearsing for the German premiere of Menotti's Saint of Bleecker Street, was scheduled to pick up a knife to stab. When it turned up missing, he flew into a rage and took a walk. It was replaced, but another singer, all unawares, took the replacement knife to peel an orange. This time Kenya's curse-punctuated rage was uncontainable, and the rehearsal had to be canceled...
This world is one that makes genius tear its hair with rage, the world that drove William Blake and D. H. Lawrence half-mad with revulsion. But Hartley is too bland to feel revulsion. Like a scientist who wants to see what will happen, he throws a wench into Harold's work and a wolf into Isabel's life...