Word: raged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rage against Iran's royals...
Another day in Tehran? No. This ugly, hourlong outburst took place in Beverly Hills, Calif. There a crowd of largely Iranian protesters vented their rage against Shams Pahlavi, one of the Shah's three sisters, who owns the $600,000 home at 1163 Calle Vista. Both Princess Shams and the ailing matriarch of the house of Pahlavi, nonagenerian Queen Mother Tajomolouk, were within the 1.4-acre estate during the outburst. Said Beverly Hills Police Captain Lee Tracy: "It was like a combat zone." The cops arrested seven demonstrators, all Iranians, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service began investigating whether...
...semi-daze, trying to cover up the bloodiest scenes. Police who arrested people-for taking airplane parts or for not leaving the scene of a disaster-coped better. For such officers, says Psychologist Steven Padgitt, "there was some sense of purpose, some sense of being able to express the rage they were experiencing...
...unleash that suppressed rage, the psychologists prescribed jogging, target shooting or other sports. Explains Davidson: "We wanted the anger to come out in an appropriate, directed way rather than when they are arresting somebody." Standard behavioral modification techniques were used for sleeplessness and physical symptoms, and some psychologists tried hypnosis to deal with amnesia about the disaster. The most successful treatment, however, was simply empathy. Says Davidson: "They seemed to need to hear initially that they are normal, adjusted individuals who were put into a completely abnormal situation." Adds Gentry Harris, a San Francisco psychiatrist who has worked extensively with...
Lasch relies on classic psychoanalytic theory to buttress his argument. Boiled down, it might be stated that a once rugged and resourceful America is now seething with a destructive Oedipal rage masquerading as the pleasure principle. But the heart of Lasch's critique is an involved analysis of capitalism that cannot be reduced...