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...Beneath it, on a cable, dangles a heroic gilded Christ, his arms outstretched. Just another adman's bright idea? Or is it "The Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven . . . the sign . . . of the end of the world"?* With that striking scene begin the days of wrath, the seven nights of destruction prefigured in the Revelation of St. John the Divine...
...children are slightly daft and that imaginative children are plain off their rocker. In the midst of this Cork slum, screaming with malice, he lived among "Invisible Presences"-imaginary young aristocrats at British public schools about whom he read in penny weeklies of the sort that excited the wrath of Etonian George Orwell. Through these stories, barefoot Mick was initiated into the code of the young English gentleman. Naturally it got him into a lot of trouble-when he "owned up to" his own school crimes or refused to "tell on" others, he would get extra cane...
Taunts the book reviewer's wrath...
...shed our fear of wrath divine...
...applied. Harper's Weekly was banned for carrying maps of Union siege works between Virginia's York and James rivers. After the first Battle of Bull Run, in July 1861, British Artist Frank Vizetelly, sent over to cover the war by the Illustrated London News, incurred the wrath of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton by writing too candidly of the Union defeat: "Retreat is a weak term to use when speaking of this disgraceful rout, for which there was no excuse. The terror-stricken soldiers threw away their arms and accoutrements, herding along like a panic-stricken...