Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here in Seabrook, telephone polls are adorned not only with political posters but with radiation detectors. Both Kennedy and Dukakis, fueled by public rage about locating a nuclear plant in such a populated area and near rich fishing waters, won overwhelming majorities here, according to town clerk Virginia Fowler...
There were obviously differences among those cases. Castro had the backing of another, now deceased superpower. Ho was a nationalist waging a civil war, as well as a Kremlin ally waging an ideological one. Khomeini was the avatar of Islamic rage against the West. But they also had something in common: by dodging American bullets, sometimes literally, each enhanced his standing in various quarters of the Third World...
This devastating chronicle reminds you that no one in all of rock hangs tougher than LOU REED. There are all those metalheads and strutters, but they're poseurs up against the rage and uncertainty that infuse Reed's new MAGIC AND LOSS (Sire/Warner Bros.). None of them have the dark courage to take on the themes Reed wrestles with here: waste, cancer, death. One of rock's most unyieldingly personal writers, Reed has taken to setting down, in music, what amounts to speculative autobiography. This record has the brutal immediacy of a diary kept by someone who cannot look away...
...target. There is simply no valid intellectual or pedagogical reason for BSA to bring Jeffries here. While God knows that Black Americans--after a couple of centuries of American slavery and another century-plus of modern racism--have a lot to be angry about and even full of rage, the path of anti-Reason and neurotic Ethnocentrism offered by Jeffries must be unacceptable...
...idea that European culture is oppressive in and of itself is a fallacy that can survive only among the fanatical and the ignorant. The moral and intellectual conviction that inspired Toussaint-Louverture to focus the rage of the Haitian slaves and lead them to freedom in 1791 came from his reading of Rousseau and Mirabeau. When thousands of voteless, propertyless workers the length and breadth of England met in their reading groups in the 1820s to discuss republican ideas and discover the significance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, they were seeking to unite themselves by taking back the meanings...