Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Much can be done if things get bad enough. Things are going to get really bad rather soon, and so I'm hopeful. It's just like a war. When you get a really bad war (I don't mean a remote war, I mean a home-threat war) people start doing things they had said were impossible. I think there's going to be a world crisis quite soon: we must hope it won't take the from of mutual murder all 'round the planet, but there's going to be a crisis...
There is a Good Guy and a Bad Guy in each match. The crowd identifies with the Good Guy and triumphs with him over the Bad Guy. They watch the Good Guy help the Bad Guy make an ass out of himself. And the bigger ass the Bad Guy makes of himself, the more they approve. The louder they laugh...
While this wasn't especially upsetting, seeing the crowd behave as if they were watching a Roman spectacle was frightening. After the Good Guy had pinned the Bad Guy (everyone knows in advance which is which), he would look to the crowd for its verdict. As the crowd roared its merciless answer, the wrestler-turned-gladiator let his opponent have it in the chest...
...Only proper, announces his commandant, since "war is a criminal enterprise." So is Play Dirty, which leaves no oases of taste or drama along its route. There is also no room for Caine, a skilled actor, to display his talents in a war picture that could give hell a bad name...
Collins also attended the Tuesday meeting of Soc Rel 153, when Inkeles lectured about juvenile delinquency. He asked Inkeles if he thought juvenile delinquency was bad...