Word: shoutingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kavanagh's death, the letters take on a deepened significance, especially the following passage: "Yesterday I stood looking out of the window where I am, and I wished you'd come round the corner, quick, a surprise, I'd have gone on my tiptoes to shout your name out of the window. Love, that I would, since people round here think I haven't a son at all, that's what they're like these days, can't even dream about nice things happening these times...
...Civil War. Too often, though, documentary journalists concentrated more on their own responses than on the experience or the social predicament of the people whom they photographed and described. At Stott points out, there was something spurious about Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of smiling sharecroppers that seemed to shout at me, I'm so poor. I don't know how wretched I really...
Many parents feared for their children's safety because the time change meant that most had to go to school in the dark. In Philadelphia, an angry mother rose at a neighborhood school-board meeting to shout: "It's dangerous for our kids to go to school through pitch-black streets full of abandoned buildings. Mothers, stop dragging your feet. Open schools later in the day or our children are going to get hurt...
...Memphis and calling home and telling her he was working late, and she walked out on him taking all the furniture. He did his version of Conway Twitty, and damn if two blondes, with piled-up hair-dos like you see at Wallace rallies, didn't stand and shout Let me hear ya, O.B.! He did a couple more country tunes from other people and twisted and grinned and showed with his voice what the most doubtful of those lyrics really mean. He made jokes about how people didn't often get him confused with I forget what other (redneck...
Eugene O'Neill seemed to write as if God (or the Devil) had given him life for just one reason: to shout with every breath that all was a ghastly mistake. "Froth! Rotten!" were his actor father's dying lines, and the playwright son with the eyes of a fallen angel carried on the refrain. "The Great Sickness" was among O'Neill's milder epithets for human existence...