Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black militancy. Black rage. Black separatism. Black crime. For years, these have been the catchwords that have discomfited and even chilled white Americans, for they imply an alien and hostile race scarcely at home in a land where it has lived for some 350 years. But another phrase may well become more familiar in the 1970s: Black middle class...
...Interior Minister, he will have a chance to practice what he has long been preaching about civil liberties. One reason for the quick action on wiretapping was the fact that Poniatowski's own phone, as he discovered to his rage one day last year, had been one of 5,000 that were routinely tapped by Interior Ministry eavesdroppers for years...
...prisoners than to rehabilitate them. Official prison structures remain more likely to make new criminals or harden old ones than to reform anyone. Thus the new breadth of the schools for crime is especially critical in determining how a prisoner will turn out. And if a convict's rage against imprisonment is mixed too explosively with warped philosophies of justification, the results can be frightening instances of terrorism...
...germ-free lunar surface, Rice departs from his scheduled extravehicular activity to speak directly to TV viewers round the world. "I have seen the earth plain," says the commander. Then instead of listening to the usual astronautical cliches and pro forma prayer, tens of millions hear Rice rage against purposelessness, corruption, pollution and "the murderous vanity that hurls us into space." Before NASA cuts him off, he has called for a Second American Revolution...
...Well Spent Life. In Cambridge, nowadays, you can read "cult film" as "pure fantasy." When the rage is not happy lunatics, and it always is, it's the area's other cult film, The Harder They Come--escapism pure and simple. Not to decry the nice visuals (some handsomes, palm trees, white sand) and the tunes (however thin the line between reggae and bubble gum), anything anyone says about the movie's political content is laughable: the only idea embodied by Jimmy Cliff is something along the lines of "You Can Get It If You Really Want (but you must...