Word: wrathful
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Faced with the wrath of an embittered Faculty, Summers spent a harried spring semester offering every conceivable variation of mea culpa: not apologizing (“I was trying to provoke discussion”), not really apologizing (“I’m sorry for any misunderstanding”), apologizing (“I made a big mistake”), and apologizing again (“I was wrong?...
...assumption that since the gods had mistakenly overlooked him, “then better to take advantage of it before the gods get wise and call in the debt,” Morrow writes with a flourish. But JFK himself was certainly not spared the gods’ wrath: he suffered from Addison’s disease, the treatments for which would painfully deteriorate his spine...
Oppenheimer became the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, which was famous for hosting Albert Einstein, but he still faced the wrath of his enemies. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover urged his agents to dig up anything incriminating, and they returned with a far-fetched report that Oppenheimer “had homosexual tendencies.” The FBI wiretapped his phones. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) member Lewis Strauss rabidly pursued Oppenheimer’s downfall too after Oppenheimer humiliated him during a Senate hearing. And finally there was Teller, “the father...
...Harvard alumnus and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) executive, I write in response to The Crimson’s editorial “Wrath of the RIAA” (Apr. 18), which sets forth the same tired and incorrect arguments about the modern music industry that have become popular among its critics. While we appreciate The Crimson’s (obligatory) shared concern for the protection of intellectual property rights, the editorial’s characterization of our relationship with technology is terribly out of tune...
...week after Mather Lather and my skin has been soothed by the power of extra-intense lotion. My epidermis has willingly moved past the wrath of defective lather and is awaiting the summer...