Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picture displayed Foster carrying his prosthetic leg behind his shoulders and hopping with what one friend called an "expression of rapturous joy" on his face...
...that the black rage was indeed as serious as that eruption of joy made it appear. It still might be limited to the post-Rodney King L.A.P.D., or to the California system of justice, or, at its broadest, to the American system of justice; but surely never to America as a whole. If the rage was vented on America as a whole, well, it could mean that James Baldwin had been right in Another Country, that African Americans can never feel at home at home...
Part of this discrepancy may be due to blacks' experiences with police, but we worry that it also stems from a fundamental racial schism in American society. All the photos from the minutes after the trial showed blacks shouting for joy and whites dropping their mouths in outrage. We feel this reflects the dangerous yet prevalent view of whites that blacks are more likely to be criminals and of blacks that they themselves are more likely to be treated unfairly by a "white system...
...Noble lectures, established in 1898, seek to "arouse...in the students of Harvard University the joy of service for Christ and humanity," according to the bequest by which they were established. In the past, the lectures have been given annually by luminaries including Theodore Roosevelt class of 1880 and Eugene McCarthy...
...watched the verdict being read last Tuesday, I felt ill--ill at the fact that someone I believed to be a cold-blooded murderer was walking home, ill at the fact that the smug "Dream Team" was displaying its joy at having beaten the justice system. And most of all, I felt ill watching O.J. thank the jury for granting him a pardon...