Word: rage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church members, and children-bound together by the nature of our oppression. If so, within these limits we sometimes achieved with each other a freedom that was close to love. I remember, anyway, church suppers and outings, and, later, after I left the church, rent and waistline parties where rage and sorrow sat in the darkness and did not stir, and we ate and drank and talked and laughed and danced and forgot all about...
...right to 'regard the law as their enemy'?" On the left, the Village Voice's Jack Newfield, a noisy supporter of Kennedy, used the occasion to berate all the people who do not share his apocalyptic, sock-it-to-'em view of politics. Newfield felt "rage," he said, "at men like Archbishop Cooke and Eric Hoffer, who say America should feel no national guilt, because the assassin was a Jordanian nationalist...
...passions," said Mary McGrory, "a remarkably competent human being. He programmed his pity for the poor. He was fierce. He could be rude. He shared the family conviction that the Kennedys, if not born, had at least been bred to rule. And he attracted the adulation and the rage which his clan, with their splendid, doomed lives, aroused in a nation that had never seen such a compelling collection of human beings, so beautiful, armored, and so vulnerable...
...book poignantly captures the disjointed lives of the volatile black youths -their periodic fits of rage, their more normal sullenness, their fierce loyalty to one another. Just as absorbing is the anguish and frustration of their parents, their fury at the police and the courts, tempered by the knowledge that they could not do much about it. Above all, one could scarcely find, in journalism or in fiction, a more revealing portrait of a certain type of policeman. David Senak, 24, known as "Snake," served for a year and a half on the vice squad, and he apparently enjoyed...
...sympathies lie. The Negro youths, he asserts, were "executed" not for being snipers but for "being considered punks, for making out with white girls, for being in some vague way killers of a white cop, for running riot-for being black young men and part of the black rage of the time...