Word: torment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first torment was New York City's power shortage, a constant worry since the great blackout of 1965. Predicted by the New York Public Service Commission last December, the new crisis became a fact in June. Within 24 days, Consolidated Edison not only announced that its big nuclear power plant at Indian Point would remain inoperative all summer, but also that its biggest single generator-"Big Allis," a million-kilowatt unit in Queens-had broken down and could not be repaired until December. These losses cut the utility's generating capacity by 17%. To provide new power...
South African Playwright Athol Fugard should bless his actors for breathing vitality into his stillborn script. James Earl Jones pours out his rage at existence like a volcanic river of fire, and Ruby Dee's face is one of those relief maps of pain, torment and humiliation that characterize a life when it is brutal, nasty and interminable. The pair ought to get a bonus in salvage...
...introduce this narrative simply to say that I did not then- nor do I now- accept the theory that all the hideous torment of that time was caused by him. What the historians will have to explain is not Joseph McCarthy. It is rather the reception he was accorded. Millions upon millions of people in the United States needed him and wanted him, or at the very least accepted him, and in so doing in a sense created...
...less than twenty years later, our campuses are experiencing a not dissimilar period of torment, whiplashed as they are by a resurgence of his hateful technique. Again people are looking for scapegoats. But this time the attack comes not from the outside but from within, from extremist splinter groups of the New Left made up of students and- I am sorry to acknowledge- also of some faculty who for reasons not quite clear to me would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down...
...short, is never off duty. That is his pride and his eventual torment. He is a compulsively strict constructionist of culture. A somewhat prickly man, the reader will guess. Well, George Jean Nathan anticipated that objection: "The critic is no gentleman, and the gentleman is no critic...