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...pain and exertion that accompanied the writing and publishing of The Deer Park. His piece is another of those arresting homemade commercials for N.M., now no longer a product in search of market but a literary institution of proven value. Mailer attacks his subject with the energy of pent-up resentment and a confidence in the infallibility of his instincts...
...Will Overcome. For the next twelve hours, demonstrations swirled across Prague in a release of pent-up animosity against the occupiers. In the afternoon, 10,000 people marched through the city's center after a protest rally in the Old Town Square in front of the monument to the 15th century Czech reformer Jan Hus. In the evening, demonstrators waving Czech flags marched to the National Theater, where the audience later gave a thunderous, emotional ovation to the final aria of Smetana's opera Libuse...
...imagine such pranks a Prankster would have to first overcome his own fears, save his own soul, The idea of bringing it all out front is an attempt to examine all the dark corners of one's own soul, to act out one's pent-up hatreds, one's repressed desires, aggressions, fantasies...
...longer abide the freedom that Alexander Dubček had granted the Czech press. "The reintroduction of bourgeois press freedom led to the most destructive consequences," declared the Moscow paper in an editorial explaining the invasion. While it lasted, moreover, it was a freedom exercised furiously, with a passion pent up by two decades of enforced Communist conformity. And, despite the Russian tanks, it is not yet completely dead...
...Blond on Blond" Dylan reached the exhausting limit of rock, but it left him filled with tension. In these two songs he is getting some of the pent-up anger out of his system. He had to make this emotional break with "Blond on Blond" before he could begin to create a new style...