Word: raged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sammy first came running 20 years ago, but he still outpaces them all. Novelist Budd Schulberg himself trimmed his book down to a two-part, two-hour television show, and to judge from the first installment (the second is due Sunday, NBC, 8 p.m., E.D.T.), TV cannot dim the rage of Sammy's mean-spirited race from Manhattan's Lower East Side to Hollywood's highest echelons...
...Anger (Woodfall, Warner), when it opened on the London stage three years ago, became a sort of Uncle Tom's Diggings, fanning a flame and suggesting a name for the new literary group that was soon known as the Angry Young Men. Its hero, Jimmy Porter, bellowed rage at religion, the Sunday Times, and his mother-in-law, a woman, he rasped, who was as "rough as a night in a Bombay brothel...
...Cossack even bamboozled his social director out of a wardrobe, so that Hart was reduced to appearing in the dining hall dressed in the camp theater's flyblown, sweat-stained costumes, impersonating Robert E. Lee or Davy Crockett or Napoleon, telling jokes while his stomach curdled with rage and embarrassment...
...Itself" would surely have sent Abraham and Moses, Mary and the Magdalene, Saints Peter and Paul, into gales of reverent laughter; such a rarified and remote ontological abstraction or inarticulate mood of awe would seem an uncomprehending parody of the inexhaustibly rich and concrete Personality whose love and rage and will they each had known with such shattering intimacy. If it is, however, one of the former concepts that is being generally worshipped, one ought at least to have the lucidity of speech and honesty of mind to admit that for most Harvard students, the God of their fathers...
Life in the future, in Clarke's ingenious imagination, can be disturbing, particularly to readers still unresigned to life in the present. The rage among moonmen a few centuries hence: Hypercanasta...