Word: anger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often listed with community services near the front of telephone directories, are becoming increasingly important in the campaign against child abuse. One is a hot line for parents who are losing control of their emotions and on the verge of harming a child; calling anonymously, they can talk their anger out with a sympathetic listener. "Hammer on a board, count to ten, do anything, but don't hit or touch the child," they are often advised. The other is a crisis center, where the child can be sent until the crisis at home subsides. Often parents and child...
Some men rape as a way of expressing anger, and often these rapes include beatings. Fred, a slab of a man with a bushy beard and bizarrely tattooed arms, went to a convenience store one night for a pack of cigarettes, and the female clerk told him she had just closed up. Furious, he savagely attacked her. "The rape was just a reaction that took place so fast I didn't know it was happening," he said...
Often the anger is directed at the whole female sex. Rapists tend to view women with a mixture of reverence and resentment. They choose random women on whom to vent their roiling rage about mothers who mistreated them or women who rejected them. "I was angry with my wife for having a crush on my brother, and I was angry with the first girl I went out with when I was 17 who told me I wasn't assertive enough," said John, a rapist in the sex-offender program at Western State Hospital at Fort Steilacoom, Wash. "I felt judged...
...write this letter to you, I imagine my eyes still burning from the clouds of tear gas that seem to be a regular occurrence. . . Today the air seemed charged with rage. The entire city felt as though it was going to explode with anger...
...however, Deng conveniently leaves out past statements that were too far to the left or right for comfort. Missing from Selected Works is his embarrassing 1966 admission that he was guilty of"prolonged neglect of Mao thought," as well as his 1978 remark that "if the masses feel some anger, we must let them express...