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Violent and prolonged anger can play havoc with body tissues, said Dr. Harold G. Wolff of Cornell Medical College. A furious man - or even a peevish one who constantly takes umbrage - gets too much blood in his stomach walls; if he stays angry too long, ulcers may result. The fury or sulking fits aroused by threats to a man's life or his love, said Dr. Wolff, sometimes affects his nose: it may swell up and hurt. A "mad" nose, caught with its resistance down, is easy prey to colds and other infections...
...objective," but dealt with the universe in terms of man's own suffering, fearing, loving and hating-much as does present-day psychology.* For contemporary Denmark's official church Christianity, Protestant Kierkegaard had nothing but contempt, though he himself had been trained for the Danish ministry. His anger boiled over in such pronouncements as "Parsons canonize bourgeois mediocrity" and "Official Christianity is both aesthetically and intellectually ludicrous and indecent, a scandal in the Christian sense." On his deathbed in 1855 at the age of 42, Kierkegaard refused all churchly ministrations, saying that "the parsons are royal functionaires...
...getting angry. It was a cold and considered anger directed against the high price tags on U.S. store shelves. By last week most U.S. citizens were wrathfully hunting a scapegoat...
Thanks to the high production, in general, the Department of Commerce estimated that 1947's first quarter net profits for U.S. industry were at the rate of $15 billion, 25% over 1946. Even the cautious New York Times was moved to anger by the gouging it considered that it was taking. In a special dispatch from Quebec, the Times talked about the "enormous profits" Canadian paper companies were making, showed that net profits of New York's International Paper Co. had risen 270% since 1943, that profits of another company had risen 500%. But the price of newsprint...
...with swarms of vicious rats. The diet consisted of rice sweepings, a tough, rubbery green vegetable and tea. For latrines there were two tin buckets. Filth and vitamin deficiency brought on dysentery, influenza, beriberi and several other diseases, mostly untreated. When the guards weren't slapping faces in anger, they were patting bottoms lewdly. Yet some of those same guards would unexpectedly share their food with the children, permit wives to see husbands in defiance of rules, even assist in smuggling provisions and medicines from friendly Asiatics on the mainland. But the kindnesses were whimsical, starvation and brutality...