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From his first (1938) book of long short stories to his latest novel, Richard Wright has given proof that anger can sometimes command more attention than art. He has one string to his bow: the shameful plight of the Negro in the white man's world. His writing is graceless, and he uses it with the subtlety of a lynching. It is doubtful for just how many of his fellow Negroes he speaks. But it is impossible to read him without sharing his indignation...
...Jackson, Miss. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texas Democrat who had spent years trying to make the Democratic tent big enough for both North and South, refused to discuss segregation ("I don't think it would be helpful to talk about it"), attempted to turn the anger of 800 fund-raising Democrats against Republicans. The Mississippians refused to be distracted, gave their biggest applause to the cry of State Chairman Bidwell Adams: "I want to tell the honorable Speaker and everyone else that I am not a milk-chocolate Democrat. I am an old-line Democrat...
Look Back in Anger brings Detroit the work of Britain's Angry Young Man, Playwright John Osborne...
...Saturday morning papers, Vice President Nixon read with anger wire-service and New York Times reports that the State Department's mail was running 80% against the Administration's stand on Quemoy and Matsu. Checking with top officers at State, Nixon became convinced that the stories were based on a calculated leak. Nixon quickly spoke...
...other to spiritual pride, self-righteousness, persecuting zeal ... If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst." Finally, says Lewis, the violently angry passages of the psalms evoke God's implacable anger toward sin (if not toward the sinner); the "relentlessness of the Psalmists" is at least preferable to moral indifference masquerading as charity...