Word: anger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the activists' anger was directed toward what they perceived as council members' homophobia in voting down a proposed amendment that would have called on ROTC to abandon its policy of barring gays and lesbians from its ranks...
...book's most moving scenes, Ackermann enters the Towers and confronts Largey's 16-year old peers, sharing their anger and desperation. "Other children were weeping," she says of the moment. "This was Larry's wake we were at. I wept...
...visit New York's Museum of Modern Art, some students in "Modern Art and Abstraction" cried out in protest. When The Crimson continued to run Eastern Airlines advertisement throughout the machinists strike, some Crimson editors attempted to pull the ads. Why? Why does the act of flying Eastern Airlines anger so many students...
...that might easily have been a TV movie of the week and inverts it into a witty, goofy, almost anthropological look at humankind as viewed by aliens from outer space. The patriarch of a suburban blue-collar family is dying of Alzheimer's disease, while his daughter acts out anger over her divorce through petty crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work. Their mix of sharp insights, off- center observations and occasional wrong...
...across town, Principal Semyon Boguslovsky sat at a table with a handful of teenagers, each dressed in the blue blazer that most Soviet students wear. When Boguslovsky said free discussion in the classroom was possible on every subject, Volodya, 16, quickly spoke up. His face red with anger, Volodya said, "There is much talk, but nothing has really changed. We are already tired of talking." Instead of silencing his young charge, Boguslovsky said nothing, but his features took on a boys-will-be-boys look of resignation...