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Word: kill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family's freedom is a white liberal, Tillich ("I've seen Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," he say. "Twice!" ), who arrives on this morning to murder some "black bastard" who knocked up his daughter. Tillich is rather upset to discover that the black boy he had expected to kill is now white. And, as he and the family play some explosive power politics during the course of the play, the family gradually arrives at the conclusion that "black is beautiful" after...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: A Mindblow at the Loeb, A Farewell to the Sixties | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

...theatregoer- but a necessary one. It is exactly the kind of communications impasse he is dealing with that spawns the rhetoric that leads to real racism, law-and-order candidates, blacklash and violence. It is no surprise that his play ends with a grotestquely scary and ecumenical ("Kill the white man! Kill the black man!") chant of murder...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: A Mindblow at the Loeb, A Farewell to the Sixties | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

...necessity, they have also returned to nature. "The bow hunter is accurate at only 30 yards or less," explains Bear. "Getting that close to a wild animal is like trying to sneak into Fort Knox. And that's the fun of it. It's not the kill; that's always anticlimactic. It's the tracking, the learning of the ways of the woods' creatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: Of Bear, Bow & Buck | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...every right to march downtown and protest. Trouble is, the members are not allowed to cross the street. They are preschool children, ages three to five. Unable to discern the mindlessness of Huckleberry Hound and Heckle and Jeckle, they have been forced to sit there and kill time since TV began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public TV: The Forgotten 12 Million | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...side of the road. But as I approached, the boy in the driver's seat started shouting at me: "You fucker! What the hell is the idea of acting like there's some kind of big emergency when all you want is a ride? I ought to kill...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: On the Road Bard by Thumb | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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