Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCIENCES (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion). Angie Dickinson, Macdonald Carey, Barbra Streisand, Audrey Hepburn, Warren Beatty, Kirk Douglas and Carol Channing join Bob (still-waiting-for-an-Oscar) Hope in this year's presentations. of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt (1922) and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939). Pat Hingle and Richard Boone read selections from the two works...
...movement-"la Causa'' to its members-has been unexpectedly successful in its attack on the grapes-of-wrath misery to which pickers, mostly migrant workers, have been subjected for generations. Thus far, nine of the valley's largest growers-most notably, Schenley Industries, Di Giorgio Corp., the Gallo Winery and Christian Brothers-have signed contracts with the N.F.W.A., elevating a laborer's average pay from $1.10 an hour to a minimum of $1.75. Other benefits such as medical care have also been won, along with more habitable work camps for the men and women who once...
America's longshoremen have long staged their own reprisals against enemies foreign and domestic, as in their refusal in 1964 to load U.S. wheat onto Russian-bound freighters. Now Dr. Benjamin Specie, 64, baby doctor and Viet Nam dissenter, has felt the fury of their wrath. Dock workers in Manhattan disdained to haul Spock's new 35-ft. ketch Carapace aboard the freighter Atlantic Clipper, headed for the Virgin Islands, where Spock has a winter home. Carapace's builders announced that they would sail the boat to the Caribbean themselves...
...powers to resort to their biggest weapons gives smaller states an opportunity for mischief and arrogance. The difficulty of reacting without overreacting sets a definite limit on power. Thus Castro feels free to talk tough with Russia; the Rhodesians thumb their noses at the British; little Cambodia dares the wrath of Red China. And North Korea boldly hijacks a ship of the U.S. Navy...
...faithful protector of his chosen people. Yet at least 6,000,000 Jews died at the hands of the Nazis. To believe in the God of the Covenant today, concludes Richard L. Rubenstein, Jews must affirm that their creator "used Adolf Hitler as the rod of his wrath to send his people to the death camps. I find myself utterly incapable of believing this. Even the existentialist leap of faith cannot resurrect this dead God after Auschwitz...