Word: anger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With varying degrees of fear, anger and fascination, but mostly with a detached kind of bemusement, the world this week awaits an unprecedented event: the fiery fall of the largest machine man has ever hurled into space. The American Sky lab vehicle, nine stories tall and weighing 77.5 tons, is expected to slip into the earth's upper atmosphere, then disintegrate into a celestial shower of flaming metal as spectacular as any of last week's Fourth of July fireworks displays. Somewhere, probably at sea, ten fragments, each weighing 1,000 Ibs. or more, will crash to earth at speeds...
This empathy graces all her writing. She is especially effective in describing the dispossessed, social outcasts or loners whose frustrated dreams fueled the violence and anger of the '60s. In "Notes Toward a Dreampolitik," she focuses on bikers and a young girl who wants to be a movie star. The bikers' childish excesses outrage her, yet she captures their alienation and compares it with the futile dreams of an aspiring star who desperately wants to be known...
...poetry of Audre Lorde demonstrated the lucid insight of a woman who is able to step back from her situation and observe--but never for too long. Because she, too, is black, feminist, lesbian, and intellectual, her consciousness and anger toward her everyday struggles and those of people like her are always at a high level. As reflected in her poetry, this awareness shocks, devastates, and clears the way for a new order of thought and action in a way the evening news cannot rival...
...major element in the public anger was the fact that many gas stations have taken to closing on weekends, and for much of the week as well. These unscheduled and unpredictable closings (involving as many as 90% of stations in the New York City area) added considerably to drivers' anxiety about getting gas, and therefore to the wasteful practice of tank-topping-buying a few gallons to get a full tank. They also added to drivers' suspicion that the industry was manipulating them, their cars and their pocketbooks...
...nervous, that it's not what the average person likes to hear," Parker muses. "It's got blues, soul, a lot of different things in it." What gives the songs much of their spirit and a good deal of their body English is frequent adrenal shocks of anger. These dosages may be taken as a tonic at regular intervals, or they may be administered locally, as when Parker took in a recent concert by Ron Wood and the New Barbarians. He went for a lark but discovered the enemy: "A lot of guys with long hair singing about...