Word: ragingly
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France always thought it had one last resort, one ready strategy for fending off the rage of its Arab street: beyond avoidance lay appeasement. No country in the West has done more to cultivate world Arab opinion, to appease Arab terrorists, to ostentatiously oppose American Middle East policy (Iraq above all), to champion the signal Arab cause of Palestine. It was no accident that Yasser Arafat chose Paris as his place to die--Paris, after Jerusalem, his second holiest city...
...Even if the rioters and jihadists momentarily share the same violent rage at French society, there is a critical difference: Youths of the banlieue want in on the French deal, not to destroy it. They want to be part of a French society and economy that has dangled its goodies before banlieusard eyes, only to pull them away with a taunting "sorry, not for you." They are battling the Establishment in the hopes of becoming part of it: they're after better housing, better schooling, an opportunity of a decent income, satisfying work, and the respect and esteem France extends...
Liberté, égalité, fraternité are ideals that France has nurtured over the centuries. But they were in little evidence last week around Paris. Changing that will require the French to confront the widening disparities between those in the banlieues and the rest of the country. Until then, the rage and resentment inflaming the streets will surely continue to smolder...
...young black man (James R. Hairston ’07) struggles physically and emotionally with his 70’s self (Christian I.C. Strong ’09) over a Diana Ross album. Should we leave our worst experiences of trauma and pain in the past? Does the rage of a history and a culture ever exhaust itself? The play raises these questions pointedly...
...wrestling with its own rage, the fundamental message of “The Colored Museum” is that it is impossible to forget or suppress the past, no matter how traumatic. In order to live a meaningful life, the collective pain and anger inherent in the African-American experience must be embraced on some level. The result is a deeply mournful, but ultimately unifying celebration of pain...