Word: fuselis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...responded with rising passion to Tory M.P. Enoch Powell's vision of rivers "foaming with much blood" and of an England transformed by hordes of "grinning pickaninnies" into a vast Asian or African bazaar. "The explosion which will blow us asunder is there," cried Powell, "and the fuse is burning...
...beat. A pause. The bomb that arced over the wall lies there unexploded, past its fuse-time, possibly dead. Something has happened in American life ?or has failed to happen. In dead winter, 1971, after months of recession, a decade of war abroad and domestic violence, a mood approaching quiet has fallen like a deep snow...
...Radical Rennie Davis, for example, is organizing a mass demonstration aimed at strangling highway traffic near the Pentagon on May 6. There are unquestionably many people, both in and out of the Weatherman faction, who still believe that the way to salvation is a pipe bomb and a fuse. Trashing is still considered a reliable tactic in many radical quarters, as is "selective" violence...
...Nixonian play on Middle America's fears, perhaps best expressed in the November campaign, helped fuse black solidarity. The campaign ignored blacks, but in its stress on law-and-order, many blacks read a code for white fear of black crime, thus an anti-black slur. It encouraged a general turning inward that was already under way, creating a greater tolerance among blacks for other blacks' views and strategies. Integration-in the sense of accepting white values to the point where all black identity fades-is clearly no longer the immediate goal, not even for middle-class blacks...
...Helen Gallagher, the girl who plays his wife. As she acts and sings ("Where-Has-My-Hubby-Gone" Blues), a smolderingly authentic Fitzgerald heroine comes alive on the stage. A special medal should be struck for Patsy Kelly as a comic howitzer of a maid with hilarious delayed-fuse timing...