Word: wrath
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...Indian, epicene writers, slick shysters who run homes for the aged, the eel-spined younger generation, the middle-aged materialistic middle class, the hot-and-cold war-babied economy, the affluent society, and-horror of horrors-store-bought bread. This catalogue of latter-day evils presumably calls for the wrath of Jeremiah. Unfortunately, Lillian Hellman only manages to turn bile into bilgewater...
...basic contradiction to anyone trying to enforce them. For a Cliffie to take advantage of the protection the sign-out system supposedly offered her, she would have to designate a realistic time of return. But because the rules required that she be back by the time she designated, the wrath of the dorm committee would descend if she were late. The logical way of avoiding any chance of punishment was to sign out every night until eight in the morning. But this, of course, defeated the purpose of the whole system...
...which is used lightly; there have been few frivolous filibusters and almost none have succeeded. In most legislation the will of the majority prevails. But when a minority feels so imperiled by a bill that it is willing both to undergo an exhausting physical strain and to risk the wrath of fellow legislators by filibustering, it can do so. Free Senate debate is the only American political institution which takes into account not only the numerical support a proposal has, but also the intensity of the feelings of those deliberating...
When the show business guests broke the don't-tell rule, some New Frontiersmen expected a tremor of presidential wrath. But no: a White House aide put out the word that "the President is not upset about the story." Like many ordinary citizens, John and Jackie Kennedy look at show business personalities through star-struck eyes, judge them by more lenient standards than those applied to lesser folk...
...explanation of this supranatural fury, Heschel says, lies in the prophets' claim to be surrogates for God. In their writings, they expressed both their own anger and divine wrath as well; their mission was to make known this "divine pathos"-God's concern for the world-to men. "Prophecy," Heschel writes, "is the voice that God has lent to the silent agony, a voice to the plundered poor. God is raging in the prophet's words." Their distinction "was to sense the human situation as a divine emergency...