Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bill was prompted by low turnout in the last Dudley House council election. Hillary K. Anger '93, who co-sponsored the bill, said between 20 and 25 out of 90 Dudley House students voted in contrast to a 50 to 60 percent turnout in the other houses...
...however, he's a cutup on the cutting edge, all Boston brashness and Irish-Catholic anger. In performance, he stalks the stage, spewing cigarette smoke and obscenities, ranting out comedy. He zeroes in on pretension, savaging vegetarians, nonsmokers and rock stars ("Don Henley's gonna tell me how to vote? I don't think so"). On cigarettes: "Smoking takes 10 years off your life. Well, it's the 10 worst years, isn't it, folks? It's the ones at the end!" On animal conservation: "How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean...
Much the same thing happens with D-FENS, whose portrayal by Douglas is more finely tuned than Ebbe Roe Smith's script. When we meet him he is a sort of Everygeek -- flattop haircut, half horn-rims, a pocket protector fully armed with ball-points. You expect his anger to be ineffectual, especially since he starts out armed only with paranoid righteousness. But, as we all know, weaponry is easily acquired in the jungle of our cities, and by the time D- FENS nears home, he has acquired a bazooka. More important, he is no longer the nightmare's victim...
Moyers then repairs to the U.S. for the rest of the series. His first stop is with doctors who study the biology of emotion. Using Method actors to portray extreme anger and fear, the researchers show that even these artificially conjured emotions produce telltale changes in blood chemistry...
...uplifting anger, the emphasis on Black woman-mother, the perseverance of love; these concerns unify Undersong so that it can be read straight through as one whole, as a testament to a life's work and the wisdom and experience necessary to be able to alter that work slightly. As Lorde writes in her poem "Conclusion", "I believe in love as I believe in our children/ but I was born Black and without illusion/ and my vision/ which differs from yours/ is clear/ although sometimes restricted...