Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three articles billed by Holiday as "the most infuriating ever published" probably will arouse little wrath when the magazine reaches Square newsstands this morning...
...After all, they told each other, he was a harmless, peaceful sort of man. They attributed his strange habits to the fact that he had once been run down by a Nazi truck. But last week the 46-year-old headmaster was the center of a sudden explosion of wrath. Reason: his incorrigible habit of falling asleep in class...
...commission that became his crowning life's work, decorating the Church of Bom Jesus do Matosinhos. For the stairway he chose as his subject not the curved elegance of cherubim and seraphim that had made him famous, but stern Old Testament prophets. In them he found a wrath. compassion and inspiration that matched his own. He sculpted their squat figures in bizarre oriental costumes, twisted and tormented in soapstone (which is soft when quarried, grows hard with age). Before the last one was finished, in 1805, Aleijadinho was working with mallet and chisel strapped to the stumps...
...would not believe that the Russians developed the H-bomb for the benefit of mankind. Other characters in Fast's America are the clear-eyed, noble, tragic men who populate the bulging political prisons. If there is one thing Author Fast knows, it is where the grapes of wrath are stored. When he is not busy explaining that Christ and Tom Paine felt just .as he does, he repeats this phrase from the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and it obviously makes him feel like Abraham Lincoln...
From the first note the audience was captivated by music and action. The plot: Idomeneo, King of Crete, cannot face the terrible duty of sacrificing his own son to appease the sea god Poseidon, and decides to spirit him away. But the young man doubles Poseidon's wrath by slaying one of his sea monsters, and Idomeneo realizes that he must go ahead with the sacrifice. When the boy's faithful sweetheart Ilia insists on dying with him, the god relents, and the ending is happy. After the two-hour performance, the audience applauded for 15 solid minutes...