Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense, Nixon spent his whole life falling and running and falling again. A symbol of the politics of anger, he was one of the most hated figures of his time, and yet he was also the only man in U.S. history ever to be elected twice as Vice President and twice as President. In the White House, he achieved many major goals: the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, restored relations with China, the first major arms agreement with the Soviet Union and much more. But he will always be remembered, as he was at his death last week...
...then the long, slow process of self-rehabilitation. Perhaps, in his last years, having regained a certain amount of public respect and even some grudging admiration, having acquired four grandchildren and all the comforts of leisurely wealth, Nixon finally found a little peace, finally got over that mysterious anger that had fueled his ambition throughout his long life. Perhaps...
...welcome Bowdren's call for compassion, but as far as the rally and march go, why and how can we expect survivors of abuse not to express anger at their aggressor...
Criticism of Take Back the Night is nothing new. There have always been irate articles and editorials against it even at times the dismissal of TBTN as nothing more than a bunch of frustrated woman attenpting to vent their own anger on a "patriarchal" society. Yet those three men who marched up to the microphone were not doing so to generate debate, but to broadcast their own agenda. And it was neither the time--nor the place--for them to air their opinions...
Bowdren is able to recognize the "emotional instability" of many young women and their misdirected anger: she is in the fortunate position of then being able to help those young women through channels less redolent of judgement and condemnation than those which they themselves resort...