Word: ragingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increasingly common disorder is known as the Token Black Syndrome. According to Price Cobbs, co-author of Black Rage, TBS often afflicts blacks who were the first of their families to graduate from college or land a high- paying job. TBS has become more widespread in recent years, as a white backlash against affirmative action has swept across the nation. On campuses and in the workplace, the prevailing view is that blacks are not required -- and are unable -- to meet the same standards for admission and promotion as whites...
...more than women seem to draw on anger as a tool, but it is decidedly double-edged. In a sport like golf, which depends on fine motor control, rage can spell disaster. In football, anger may help power up a blitzing lineman, but it can impair a quarterback's judgment...
...battle lines are riddled with ironies. Pro-lifers, usually from law-and- order backgrounds, rage against police brutality (of which there has been little so far). Pro-choicers, including avowed lefties, complain that the police are going easy on the opposition. Both sides have formed local subgroups of Republicans, Democrats and religious leaders to endorse their cause...
...flowers at the sidewalk shrine for Gavin Cato were wilting in the relentless August sun last week, but the rage of local blacks toward Hasidic Jews in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., was undiminished. WE WANT THE JEWISH MURDERER ARRESTED NOW, read one sign there. NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE, read another. THE WHITE IS THE DEVIL, proclaimed still another...
...Gipperphobes will be pleased to hear Ron bad-mouth the policies of the Reagan Administration. He treads the tightrope in Jimmy Stewart style, his aw- shucks ingenuity tempered with wry skepticism. The kid needs both in this R-rated melange of volatile guests (discussing steroids, Fundamentalism, rap music, gay rage) and a rowdy, het-up audience. The result is part encounter group, part bear baiting. And Ron seems willing to play, not omniscient emcee, but human sacrifice. "I used to be able to control this show," he quipped after both he and his wife had been called...