Word: saeva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amis des Noirs, the Philadelphia Democrats, the Rights of Man, the French Revolution, and the distant rumble of the full Napoleonic area. Yet the novelist's personality is too weak for these high and mighty personages and events; it reveals itself as equable where it should assume the "saeva indignatio" of Swift. We have a right to expect vigor, because the historical period with which it deals has long been the "moment" of vigorous writers like Stendahl, Lamartine, Thackeray, and very recently the Russian Vinogradoff. Compare "Black Thunder" with "The Black Consul" and you will have a contemporary measure...
...certain 'saeva indignatio'--the indignation of the true social satirist--is in this definition: "One of the few lines left can be drawn between women who can be bought by the advertisers or not." "The Victorian Peeresses would have rather sold themselves in private," Mr. Leslie informs us, "than given their faces away with a box of cream." O tempera! O mores...