Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frightened West Germany into a state of paranoia. Financing operations through frequent bank robberies, the gang set up bomb factories and, through their contacts with international terrorist groups, bought arsenals of weapons and ammunition. Suitably armed, the German terrorists embarked on a killing and bombing spree. They vented their rage on "consumer capitalism" by placing bombs in Frankfurt department stores. They struck at the hated Ami (unflattering German slang for "American") by setting bombs in U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg and an officers' club in Frankfurt; they shocked German legal authorities with their cold-blooded killings of judges...
...1960s riots. Says he: "When the lights went out, there was a free-for-all, an individualistic phenomenon in which everyone gets what he or she can get." Declared Futurist Herman Kahn, director of the Hudson Institute: "They have no idea of what moral standards are. This 'suppressed rage' idea is crap. This kind of reasoning will make the same thing happen all over again...
...fear a return to the city's bad old days of openhanded spending on social services, consider her leftish, and point to her lack of administrative experience. And, just below the surface of her current relatively controlled persona, lurks the shadow of the old Bellicose Bella, for whom rage is the staff of life...
Throughout the '60s, California rode point on reality. It discovered the Frisbee, embraced vodka and popularized credit cards and garage-door openers. The 1964 student protests at Berkeley sparked passions on campuses across the country. Detroit and Newark symbolized black rage, but Watts was the first ghetto to burn. Three years before Wounded Knee fell under siege, Indian militants fought for possession of Alcatraz. Almost every state had its draft riot, hippie commune and Black Panther spokesman-but the phenomenon that each represented surfaced first in California...
...such sadistic acts?expressions of what moral philosophers would call sheer evil?be explained satisfactorily by poverty and deprivation? What is it in our society that produces such mindless rage? Was the 19th century French criminologist Jean Lacassagne right when he observed that "societies have the criminals they deserve"? Or has the whole connection between crime and society been exaggerated...