Moses raged privately and violently but never challenged Moskowitz to her face

Evidence

Often, Moses would come bursting out of Mrs. Moskowitz’s office cursing under his breath. Striding around the large room in which thirty staffers had desks, he would let the breath out. “He used to call Mrs. Moskowitz all kinds of names which weren’t gentlemanly at all,” one of the men who sat in that room recalls. “I remember him saying, over and over, ‘Do you know what that old she son of a bitch told me this morning?’ ” Once, lunging across the room in a rage so blind that he thudded into a desk, he paused for a moment, leaned down to the startled man sitting at it, and muttered grimly, “I could have kicked that woman in the shins!” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 426

Categorization

• CANDY: The vignette — Moses lunging blind with rage into a desk, then confiding in a startled staffer that he could have kicked her in the shins — is vivid, humanizing, great dinner-table material.
• XREF: connects to: Moses won his mother’s favor largely by never disagreeing with her — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 157