Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whites, the apotheosis at first seems unsettling. Many Americans recall Malcolm X only as a bad guy, known mainly for preaching racism. Is the continuing Malcolm X cult just one more outrageous byproduct of the rage and rhetoric that afflict race politics and U.S. culture in general? The answer is, no. And the best way of learning why is to examine yet another post-Malcolm X phenomenon, the spate of books by or about the former Black Muslim leader that have made him a minor industry in the publishing business...
...incitements to revolution drew a disproportionate amount of attention during his lifetime. But the angry and occasionally outrageous things that he said seemed wilder then than they do today. Malcolm X's characteristic tone was not flailing rage. It was a kind of savage, pragmatic skepticism about American liberal institutions and a sense that in the U.S., whites, collectively and historically, have been and still are a disaster for blacks. He refused to be grateful for empty favors. "Fm not going to sit at your table," he once said, "and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate...
...gyroscopic balance-and gets the work done. That work, at its best, has a premonitory power. The best article is last, a report on the National New Politics Convention in Chicago. Gouts of words, pollutions of principle, corrosions of politics all characterized the convention, which began in choral rage and ended with internecine squeals. Adler records it all, more in sorrow than anger. It was in Chicago that it all began to cohere-the demands for reparations, the open insults to Martin Luther King, the bifurcation of white radicals and black separatists, the totalitarian language. As the conference deteriorated into...
...James Spruill, dynamicas Wellington, herds and coerces his wards like recalcitrant children. Only the black women, free from sexual ambivalence in their attitude toward the white Queen, can maintain a consistent level of vituperation and hatred. The ruling classes, perversely enough, are ennobled by their tenacious role consistency; directionless rage and degrading imitation is, in Genet's crypto-conservative vision, the lot of revolutionaries...
...this reason, the Radcliffe administration's recent announcement (Jan. 8 issue). that it is eliminating four more off-campus houses, was probably greeted at Harvard with a reaction bordering on apathy. At Radcliffe, however, the announcement brought rage frustration, and a certain amount of defeatism-after all, it is the continuance of a trend toward "dormitization" which no student protest has been able to halt or even slow down in the face of President Bunting's cheerful determination to make Radcliffe's students choose between dormitory life or "off-off" apartment living. With the former, students can opt for institutional...