These were notable for their restraint and classical formality and were barely expressive of the rebellious indignation that marked his early novels, such as Før hanen galer (1952; "Before the Cock Crows"), in part about Nazi medical experiments in the concentration camps, and Jonas (1955; The Least of These), about the failings of the Norwegian school system.
Written by Paul Green, a playwright celebrated in the 1920's and 30's for his harsh, realistic depictions of social ills, often on racial themes, "Hymn" is marked by the unblinking indignation that made it courageous and powerful in its day but now comes across as thunderously unsubtle.
Though some have said that "anger" — that "rage" — was the keynote to his mind, the truth is that his "rage" was more like what we call indignation, and indignation can often be marked by innocence.
It's a vaguely sour piece, and a periodically platitudinous one, too, marked by Hare's residual Thatcher-era indignation.
Just a quick note to mark the occasion of my being moved to write to you out of dumbstruck admiration instead of righteous indignation for the first time in ages.
"I would have preferred the target of my persistence to have been only the enemy, rather than the Pentagon as well," he writes in the tone of half-choked indignation that marks much of his story.
Of course, my conjoined confidence in the Academy's political indignation and aesthetic discernment may be entirely off the mark.
Catherine Stock, a professor of history at Connecticut College and author of Rural Radicals: Righteous Indignation in the American Grain, says the case bears several marks of a pattern of political violence in the American boonies.
Catherine Stock, a professor of history at Connecticut College and author of Rural Radicals: Righteous Indignation in the American Grain, says the case bears several marks of a pattern of political violence in the American boonies.
I understand his indignation.
