Word: wrathful
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...determine what actions, military and otherwise," can be taken against terrorists. In a speech in Dallas on Friday, the President linked those outrages with the TWA hijacking as constituting "an attack on all Western civilization by uncivilized barbarians." He quoted Theodore Roosevelt: "The American people are slow to wrath, but once their wrath is kindled it burns like a consuming flame...
...plot explicity follows Candide's love affair with Cunegonde, which initially is torn apart by her percents score of his social positions. The lowers' attempts at reunion, simply put make up the rest of the plot, carrying Candide from war, to the wrath of the Inquisition, the New World of South America, and taking Cunegonde from her sedate home-life t, the life of an exotic whore, to a harem. Leaving the intricacies of the plot to the audience and to the realm of fantasy, the overall consistency of performances commands much respect Meredith's Candide is amazingly native...
...Bruce Bonafede, is based on an actual dilemma that confronted two black South African actors several years ago in Baltimore: ordered by a revolutionary organization in their home country to withdraw from a U.S. drama festival as a protest against their government, they had to choose between the punitive wrath of South African officials and the equally ruinous ostracization by their peers. Bonafede's narrative does little more than state the problem with heartbreaking clarity. But his crisp, clever dialogue, enhanced by the enchanting performances of Tom Wright and Delroy Lindo, brings out all the poignancy of an enforced privacy...
...Eisenach, a benevolent bewigged stone figure beams down from a pedestal, quill in hand and manuscript paper at the ready; beyond it, high on a hill in the distance, sits the Wartburg Castle, where Luther, in disguise, completed his translation of the New Testament while hiding out from Catholic wrath and Wagner set his opera Tannhauser. In Leipzig, a sterner Bach is memorialized outside the Thomaskirche by both a full-length statue and, not far from the church, a bust dedicated by Felix Mendelssohn. Genius pays homage to even greater genius: it was the romantic Mendelssohn, a Christianized...
...part because it is a logical step upward from his current position as premier of the Russian Republic. Like Gorbachev, he was a protege of Andropov, who apparently tabbed Vorotnikov to clean up corruption. Vorotnikov had conducted an earlier anticorruption drive with such fervor that he seemingly incurred the wrath of powerful enemies and was shipped off to Cuba as Soviet Ambassador from 1979 to 1982. But his star has ascended steadily since...