Word: rage
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Bruno was not releasing any figures on his income last week-he did not care to let the tax collectors in on anything so personal-but he was as close to a rage as any pop musician can get in a land of opera lovers...
...argument that followed stopped play for five minutes. One could follow every phase of the discussion quite clearly merely by watching the extraordinarily vivid gesticulations of the players. The most interesting performance was staged by the Navaro goal-guard, who put on a private demonstration of shame and rage by lying face down in front of the goal and beating the unoffending earth with his fists, feet, and forehead. Even after the umpire's decision had been upheld, the goalie refused solace and continued his violent soliloquy long after the game was resumed...
Capp loves them, each and every one. Which is not to say that they please him; they reduce him to a frenzy of rage and exasperation-punctuated with hoots of laughter. In moments of gloom he is certain that this ubiquitous medley is on the brink of ruining 1) the world in general and 2) Al Capp in particular. In such moods his conversation often implies that he is a sort of modern General Custer, facing hordes of murderous madmen and cut off from civilization with no weapon more deadly than India...
...rage is usually supplanted by a mood of hilarity and revivified cunning. When the pro-Republican Pittsburgh Press protested that his venal, pompous and reactionary politico, Senator Jack S. Phogbound, was a calculated libel on the reputation of the U.S. Senate, Capp had a soft and devilish answer. He replied that he knew nothing of politics but what he read in the Pittsburgh Press, that Phogbound had been suggested by that newspaper's editorial attacks on Democratic politicians, and that he was not only hurt but genuinely amazed to find the Press damning instead of applauding his creation...
...young man of whom Novelist John Dos Passes once wrote this passionate paragraph was John Dos Passes. Fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough to satisfy his rage to live, John Dos Passes has hurried about the world, a perennial seeker after the truth about his time...