By Alex Ross Music has the power to cloud reason, stir rage, cause pain, even kill.
We resist evidence suggesting that music can cloud reason, stir rage, cause pain, even kill.
In May, the New York City Department of Education stirred rage among middle-class parents when it put hundreds of children on waiting lists to attend kindergarten at their neighborhood schools.
When Craig Raine published in May this year a wistful, clever poem about an ageing man's hopeless erotic thoughts, it stirred rage, hatred and fantasies of violence, of vengeful genital mutilation across the social media.
The murders of Simpson and Goldman also stirred public awareness about domestic violence, stirred rage against the double standard in the treatment of rich and poor in the legal system, and elevated celebrity murder cases to media tabloid sensationalism.
The banquet-hall, with seating for 110, stirs particular rage in a country where almost half the children under the age of five are chronically malnourished.
A father-coach sends children out to be rough; he stirs their rage, establishes an opposing team as an enemy and provokes his boys not just to beat them but to dominate them.
But those are discussions for another day, when Oz the polemicist is stirred to rage.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Assad said circumstances in his country would not stir the rage of the masses.
Mr. Viselli embodies an anguished and vengeful man, and that rage stirs the passions of the rest of the cast.
