Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upon their music with the teeth of unfair comparison, and took out their boredom as a token of their hipness. The musicians were wasted away by self-consciousness. These are to some degree the afflictions being visited upon the whole rock scene today, out Boston consumed itself in its rage to be recognized. It forgot that it was supposed to entertain, and not posture. The Boston Sound died, in the final analysis, from an overdose of self-importance
...with evil and unabashed about it. When he sings "Sweet Little Sixteen," about the girl with the 'woman blues" who loves to wear "tight dresses and lipstick, high heel shoes" but then must "change and go to school," the thought that he was jailed for years for statutory rape (Rage that he was sent to jail, delight that he knows what he's singing about...
...YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a warm, loving tribute to the late Lorraine Hansberry, put together from her own writings. The interracial cast, ably directed by Gene Frankel, works well as an ensemble to thread an elegiac mood through the range of comedy, rage, reminiscence and introspection...
...this were not a time of profound frustration for Britain. Continuing sterling crises, the harshest austerity budget ever, constantly shrinking power abroad, combined with an unpopular and unresponsive government at home-all help to create a mood of anxiety. Powell has given the frustrated British a scapegoat for their rage: "the colored." He predicts that within a generation "we shall have succeeded in reproducing 'in England's green and pleasant land' the haunting tragedy of the United States." He offers the simplistic judgment that "the people of England will not endure it." He offers an equally simplistic...
...would like to murder his father, but this natural impulse is cunningly suppressed: one day he will be the old man. He feels as strong an affinity for his buddy as for his wife-or even his mother, once he has been weaned. But, says the expert, the rage and the lust in him are perpetually rampant. Everything he possesses, everything he is, he owes to the intellectual control that stays the trigger finger...