Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a potential for violent explosion among these young, although no one will even take a guess at how profoundly embedded their rage is or how it might show in a sudden crisis. Conventional wisdom today has it that Watts and Newark and Detroit are not likely to happen again because they were pyrrhic, whatever their short-term value in bringing home to white America the depths of black despair. True, the riots were never part of a black revolutionary strategy as such; they grew out of combustible situations in which frustration finally vented itself, almost incoherently. Because that...
...sense of proportion. His wife has divorced him. He has resigned his job and gone to live in the addict-infested slums of the Lower East Side. Tormented by the thought that his options were at best illusory, he becomes a 39-year-old Ginger Man, filled with rage and a ravening sexual lust in a city he wildly envisions as a racial prison camp...
...antidote to the sort of thinking that led the U.S. into Viet Nam and scorned as window dressing designed to cover up a hasty retreat. To some allies, it seemed to presage a reneging on past promises. The controversy about the doctrine's eventual results is likely to rage for some time, but one thing has become quite clear: before the 1972 elections, President Nixon is genuinely determined to give the U.S. a substantially lower profile in Asia...
...society. For eleven years, Jackson, 29, has served time in California prisons for the $70 robbery of a gas station - 7½ years of that time in solitary confinement. Though eligible for parole after his first six months, he has been repeatedly turned down, and continues to promote black rage and militancy among inmates. His own rage has gone partly into self-help training: 1,000 push-ups a day, heavy reading, and the writing of letters so striking that they have recently been published in a book, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. He now sits...
...well be a disease loose in the body politic. But if it is merely America catching its breath, refusing to rage, to lean permanently on the poles of left and right, then it might be as salutary for the country as it will be profitable for Hollywood. With Love Story, the town sees a comeback, a chance to make films that no longer strain for an indecipherable segment of the unfathomable audience. It makes the kind of fiscal sense that no company can afford to ignore. A GP film can admit Mom and Dad, plus the two kids shut...