Word: angers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the entire tragedy resulted simply because the MOVE members were black and subscribed to an uncommon ideology. Pictures of police maliciously beating unarmed MOVE members after they had surrendered substantiated the accusations of racism and fueled racial antagonism. Once again, Philadelphia was split right down racial lines. The anger of the black community was matched only by the outrage of the whites, who felt a white police officer had died because of the recalcitrance of what they considered to be nothing but a bunch of lazy black hippies...
...Smith's ability to engage in such negotiations was seriously compromised by increasing Rhodesian anger over the air-crash massacre. When he and his wife arrived at the Anglican Cathedral in Salisbury to attend a memorial service for the victims, two men in the crowd of whites outside held banners reading: "Prime Minister, give Nkomo a message from us when you meet him secretly next time: 'Go to hell, you murdering bastard...
...always taught that the main objective of punishment is ulterior: to deter or rehabilitate. In this design, punishment should not do the one thing it says it will do-punish. It is not to make the criminal suffer, to make him feel the force of society's anger for his deed. It is surely not communal revenge...
...Social Security taxes scheduled for January. Miller last week urged Congress to do just that, and he has allies in the Administration who calculate that the delays would knock a full percentage point off next year's inflation rate. But the delays would so anger-labor and old people that the Administration is not expected to ask for them. Most likely it will merely pass the word that it is not opposed to delays and hope that this signal will be enough to move Congress...
...special subspecies of human, a person gifted not only with better lungs and heart but with superior spirituality. Alas, superiority carries penalties. Sheehan feels the runner is specially susceptible to the meanness of an envious society. "Why," he asks, "is the runner a lightning rod for the anger and aggression and violence of others?" And Sheehan answers himself: "The runner puts himself above the law, above society. And men in gangs and crowds and mobs know this and react accordingly." Sheehan intones: "The runner knows of man's inhumanity to man firsthand...