Word: anger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...message largely confirmed what Washington had suspected: Amin's anger had been sparked by Jimmy Carter's harsh press conference comment, which was bound to provoke Amin. It also seemed to imply that Amin was up to his old trick of blackmailing foreign powers into taking him seriously. Last year he restricted the movement of the several hundred Britons in Uganda after London broke off diplomatic relations with Kampala. Amin forbade the British residents to leave the country until they had met him and submitted a memorandum on how well they had been treated. They...
Seeing pictures of abused women, whether advertisements or photo layouts [Feb. 7], excites one overwhelming emotion in me-intense, frustrated anger. I am seized by the urge to abuse someone in return, preferably the people who create such monstrosities and rationalize them in the name...
...deeply disturbed by the TV series that he had to stop watching after two episodes. Said he: "I couldn't watch the rest. I was too angry. If I had met any of my white friends, I would have lashed out at them from a vortex of primeval anger." And yet, Mitchell went on, he realized that the story "is as much a part of our legacy as Andrew Young being sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by Thurgood Marshall at the White House...
...Americans descended from post-Civil War immigrants can scarcely be charged with the sins of other people's fathers. There is some danger that breast-beating about the past may turn into a kind of escapism, distracting attention from the evils of the present. Only if Roots turns the anger at yesterday's slavery into anger at today's ghettos will it really matter...
...Washington, members of the congressional Black Caucus seem to have no idea, yet, how to make use of this anger, of the energy unleashed by Roots. "We've been given a piece of literature that takes the civil rights struggle to a higher level," said black Congressman John Conyers. "It doesn't cure unemployment or take people out of the ghetto. But it's a democratic statement as eloquent as any that's ever been devised, and we've been talking about what can be done with...