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...recent years, the Civil War has become almost a minor industry in itself within the book trade. One historian after another has trampled out his own vintage from the fabled grapes of wrath. The boom dates roughly from 1934 and Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee; it picked up momentum in 1942 with Freeman's Lee's Lieutenants (which still sells thousands of copies a year), and has been surging ever since. In 1961. the Civil War's 100th anniversary year, more than 250 Civil War books have been published, and even the most trivial...
Over the summer, Segal and Raposo brought "the wrath of Achilles" to Sardi's Restaurant in New York in a backers' audition. After Segal had finished romping through "The Deus ex Machina Mambo," someone asked him if he would perform in the New York production...
Puritanism degenerated into "Yankeeism because of this corruption, Niebuhr asserted. The Puritans were so extreme that they "regarded every storm as a revelation of God's wrath." If events went well, the Puritans slipped into "the complacent identification of virtue with success...
...neutrals, once they got over their initial indignation, was already manifesting itself in Belgrade, where a chorus of neutralist voices urged a summit meeting between Russia and the West to negotiate their differences-with the implied notion that the West should negotiate something, anything, that would appease the terrible wrath of Nikita Khrushchev...
...sending Brazil's holdover Congress into permanent recess. As Lacerda's charges began to stir a fuss, Quadros dramatically resigned. It was seven years and a day from the resignation and suicide of Brazilian Strongman Getúlio Vargas, another President who had incurred Lacerda's wrath...