Word: lashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...image" problem lies. What the "Brother Chico" incident and the reaction by the H-R Chicanos suggests strongly is that some of us may be at Hahvahd and in physical touch with Status & Privilege, but that within we remain insecure and with an inferiority complex causing some to lash out in the way of a Brown Bilbo...
...hurled bottles and bricks. But when press arrived, they jeered at them and cried. "You guys are vultures." Together, of course, these two actions make little sense. Yet the hecklers' sensibility comes through only in this characteristic illogic. People in Boston may no longer be sure who to lash out at, only that you have to lash out at somebody or else meekly and against your proud, cultural instincts, crawl back under the thumb of the "have-gots...
...hurled bottles and bricks. But when press arrived, they jeered at them and cried. "You guys are vultures." Together, of course, these two actions make little sense. Yet the hecklers' sensibility comes through only in this characteristic illogic. People in Boston may no longer be sure who to lash out at, only that you have to lash out at somebody or else meekly and against your proud, cultural instincts, crawl back under the thumb of the "have-gots...
...Paulina's husband, "I charged thee that she should not come about me," and then adds, sotto voce, "I knew she would." He also managers to ring true when he strips to the waist, takes off his crown and grovels on the floor while encouraging Paulina to tongue-lash him. Again and again, when he is not even speaking, we can see the character thinking...
...chiselers and crime in the streets had become respectable-but were being pre-empted by more respectable candidates. Carter asked Southern audiences: "Why send a message when you can send a President?" Wallace, who knows but will never admit that he cannot reach the Oval Office, began to lash out with some of his old meanness...