Word: ragingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nation, Indivisible, a 3-to 31-hour inquiry into the race problem. Sixteen citizens, including a Bible-quoting white minister, a policeman and a housewife P.T.A. president, quietly discuss their feelings-and biases. In contrast to the fiery confrontations between white bigots and black militants that are all the rage on many public affairs shows, the Westinghouse production is an unsensational, subtle and at the same time shattering view of the unconscious prejudice prevalent...
...rights commissioner in New York City. At first glance, the chronicle of Portnoy's pain, rooted as it is in Jewishness and the urban environment, may appear to have only specialized appeal, but Roth gives it a universality that reaches beyond ethnic boundaries. It is a coda of rage and savagely honest self-lashing reminiscent of the performances of the late Lenny Bruce. No detail is varnished, no lust or act nice-Nellied as Portnoy complains, clowns and laments in his desperate efforts to claw his way to sanity. The result is a spontaneous emotional release of enormous authenticity...
...whiz, that kind of carryin' on has been all the rage from these Kansas plains clear out West to Hollywood and beyond. You mean it's just startin' to catch on back East...
...give today's young protesters pause to discover that way back in 1943 this chap Wylie was throwing verbal Molotov cocktails at authority, the church, motherhood, scientists and economists. His book Generation of Vipers, written in a mood of "ribaldry and rage," became a famous bestseller. True, it did not inspire street riots or start campus revolutions, but at least it gave aid and comfort to thousands of as yet un-Freudianized young men and women who wanted to reject their mothers...
Today, at 65, Wylie has lost none of his rage but all of his sense of ribaldry and humor-which puts today's youth one up on him. This tirade is directed again at humanity in general. Specifically, Wylie's complaint is that man does not live as the animal he was in tended to be; instead he has buried his natural instinct under phony shibboleths such as religion, capitalism, Communism, belief in progress and blind faith in science...