Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protest, the official response is automatic and incomplete. One resident summed it up: "We had a riot and the doors were painted. Next week we'll have another and they'll paint the halls." But for the bureaucrats and for each contestant in the small battles with poverty which rage throughout Cambridge, the lesson is clear: paint cannot hide the failures of Roosevelt Towers...
Appalled by the immolation murder, Boston's whites poured out rage and alarm on local talk-show radio programs. They were quickly echoed by blacks, who realize all too well that the residents of a neighborhood quickly become the primary victims of any crime rampage started there. "Everyone in the black community is upset," said State Representative Royal Bolling. "This is one of the most horrible things to ever happen in our area." Nevertheless, the tension soon found a fresh point at Andrew Square in a declining white neighborhood and near the notoriously ill-planned and ill-sited black...
...environmental and donor responsibility issues are clear. It is equally clear that Con Ed will not give up without a fight, and the utility may be counting on the University's lack of stamina to ensure that no new legal battles rage...
...think it's a very important theme, because that's where the rages appear from those people. Later on in life the rage is terrible. They rage against kids, they rage against this, they rage against that. The level of annoyance is continually high, never lowered, always right up under the surface. Violence erupts. Your courtrooms are filled with the debris, with their kids. It's scary. It's the scariest part of life I know. Because they're capable of anything, the resentments are so huge. And nobody bothers with them...
...could write about the turmoil it caused him. He despised himself for still living at home with his mother and father, a bluff haberdasher whom Kafka attempted to blame for his neurasthenia. For the full treatment read Letter to His Father (Schocken Books, 1953), 45 pages of controlled rage, respect, affection and revulsion...