Word: ragingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...destruction of sacred cows has some historic precedent in this country. I am sure you will agree that the contributions made by Stiffens, Sinclair, and LaFollette persist though the public outcry and rage may have subsided. Robert C. Buxbaum...
...accused confides his guilt in the 1959 bestseller Anatomy of a Murder, for example, his lawyer replies: "If the facts are as you have stated them so far, you have no defense, and you will be most likely electrocuted. On the other hand, if you acted in a blind rage, there is a possibility of saving your life. Think it over, and we will talk about it tomorrow." Is this unethical? Even though perjury may result, says Freedman, "the client is entitled to know this information and to make his own decision as to whether to act upon...
...easy to dismiss this sort of thing as irresponsible fantasy, but it should be recalled that this last little apparently sick mick joke is directed against James Joyce, who made one of his characters rage against Ireland as "the old sow that eats her own farrow...
Thinking both had missed, and muttering to himself in a cold rage, Gilmore followed the MIG through another wrenching, rolling loop of a brain-draining six gravities, then cut loose a third Sidewinder. The enemy's tail section came apart in a tumble of torn metal, and the plane pitched earthward. In fact, Gilmore's first Sidewinder had also scored, and the Red pilot had ejected. In getting the first MIG-21, Gilmore had killed it twice...
Filled with rage and outrage, Waugh in his middle 20s gave tongue to his disgust in Decline and Fall (1928) and Vile Bodies (1930). The world these books describe is the world Eliot called the waste land and Yeats described as a "mere anarchy" in which "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity." Waugh's people are the Bright Young Things of London's high society, people who ride to hounds while the world is going to the dogs. Waugh loathes them because they have betrayed the aristocratic ethos, and he depicts...