Word: anger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...background against which we measured our collective progress has become merely the shifting aggregate of individual talents and trends. They give us a nice way to get our utils in. And in form and lyrical content rock is responding to all the changes going down around itself. The enthusiastic anger of "Street Fighting Man," taken seriously in its time, has been replaced by the staged, mechanical rebelliousness of "Smoking in the Boys' Room." Oh my, my. Can you do the antiseptic boogie? The sterilized...
Daily Assaults. By the time these victims of the system reached junior high school, "too young to drop out and too far behind to succeed," they were filled with anger-and took it out on the white minority. After weeks of manfully trying to cope with daily assaults by different groups of black students in his junior high school, Noah reluctantly gave up when a gang of blacks threw him down a flight of stairs. He transferred to another integrated-but more racially balanced-public school. Says his mother: "I realized that [the school] was the terrible...
...like the way a distant shot of characters is set off by the sound of their voices from a microphone obviously close at hand, or the way Chicamaw, one of the robbers, enacts a play bank robbery with the children of a cohort and then breaks into real, dangerous anger when one of them refuses to go along...
...with the SDS Strike position and issued a statement charging the University with "purposely violating its agreement to establish a meaningful" Afro-American studies program. The Standing Committee's tentative proposal included a requirement that concentrators specialize in an "allied field." This joint-concentration requirement--more than anything else--angered the Afro leadership, and in the highly charged and militant atmosphere that followed the Bust, Afro channeled its anger into a radical and soon-to-be successful challenge to the liberal conception of the new Afro department...
Although our historical position lets us see some things more clearly, it keeps us from understanding the emotions and convictions, the anger and fears of 1969, the intensity that made the Strike the most important experience of some people's lives, its texture and flavor and impingement on everyday living. Inasmuch as this supplement is an historical assessment, it required of its writers a sympathy with and understanding for every side in 1969's disputes--a sympathy and understanding we can't feel fully for any side, separated from them by five years...