Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Jackson campaigned in New York City, two separate groups of acolytes, maybe 500 each time, spontaneously gathered on sidewalks to stare at buildings in which he was holding meetings. Hundreds of supporters chased their champion down a dark street after nightfall on the north side of Milwaukee. Telephone calls jammed the switchboards at Jackson headquarters, and contributions poured into the congenitally ill-funded campaign at the rate of $60,000 a day. Small wonder that the populist preacher said with smiling satisfaction, "There is a kind of Jackson-action fever...
...record: those of Jewish soldiers shooting and beating demonstrators who were armed only with stones, roughing up Arab women, and even breaking the bones of unarmed captives. As these images flashed around the world, soiling the reputation of the once vaunted Israel Defense Force, Jerusalem quickly saw the dark side of its enlightened media policy. Officials came to an all too familiar conclusion: the press was to blame...
Meanwhile, professional football remains in the dark ages. This year marked the first time a Black quarterback, Doug Williams of the Washington Redskins, competed in the Super Bowl. It also marked another year in which no Black held a positon as head coach or general manager...
...College and police have done little to step up service for students. Instead, the police went so far as to deny one woman graduate student a ride after dark because, according to chief of Harvard's police, Paul E. Johnson, she was "abusing" the service. Her offense had been to take rides with the escort service six times from Larson Hall to Peabody Terrace after her Wednesday evening class. This denial of protection is an abdication of the police responsibility to protect students, and it must be condemned...
...slipped him slow-acting but irreversible poison. But Cornell is no longer an accountant. He is a blocked novelist, cynically teaching college lit. The new twist is that Cornell's death, not to mention several others, is motivated not by the usual lusts (money, sex, power) but by dark literary passions. How far we have come from 1949, when it was a boring old iridium shipment that set everyone's wheels spinning. How acute of D.O.A.'s creators to realize that in today's culturally aspiring America there probably are people who would kill to write a few immortal sentences...