Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...object of Wilson's wrath is the 28,000-member Modern Language Association, to which most college and university professors of literature belong. Wilson argues that one of the M.L.A.'s most ambitious enterprises, definitive editions of major 19th century American writers, is so riddled with pedantry that the 258-volume series will be virtually useless. Reviewing one of the volumes already published, William Dean Howells' Their Wedding Journey (Indiana University; $10), Wilson dismisses the project as "a waste of time and money." He claims that its high price tag and its elaborate textual commentary will mean...
...finally sold his interest back to Rainier, he cleared $5,000,000. In a 1954 attempt to monopolize the Saudi Arabian oil market, he made a deal with King Saud that would have given him exclusive rights to ship that country's petroleum. He thus brought down the collective wrath of the world's oilmen, who finally brought him to heel...
...agony and wrath...
Commonwealth Wrath. The openings for negotiation at Gibraltar remained as small as the stakes were large. "If I give way on any vital point," said Smith, "I might find 100% of Rhodesians against acceptance." Yet if Wilson backed down, he would have to face the wrath of black nations in the Commonwealth and, humiliatingly, ask the United Nations to withdraw its sanctions. Also, he presumably does not wish to be remembered as the Prime Minister who consigned Rhodesia's black majority to the same apartheid fate as that endured by the blacks of South Africa...
...proof against reverses. He is likely to be a moralist rather than an ideologue-a Ralph Nader instead of a Mark Rudd. Because he combines pragmatism, idealism and creativity, he can accept life's ambiguities-and then synthesize them into surprising new patterns. In Doer, wrath at the status quo translates into useful social action. In the revolutionary, it accummulates; unable to find release, it bursts into antisocial violence...