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...machines, true to form, run amuck, but it is only a two-alarm panic. The twist-it can hardly be called a novelty-is that this time the machine is a man, one Harry Benson, who has had a computer implanted in his brain. Subject to unpredictable fits of rage, Benson used to beat his wife and take potshots at the neighbors. He has been diagnosed as a paranoid psychotic and has volunteered for the implantation. Still the operation reinforces his deepest fear: that mankind, at the hand of science, is being changed into a race of machines...
...Swift, was a moralist and a conservative. He scourged human deceits and imperfections because he was inseparably attached to the hopeless absolutes they betrayed. His bottom most affinities lay not with his liberal and youthful supporters but with the judges and cops whom he enraged. He shared that rage in a sense and dreamed of vindication in their eyes and desperately believed that the Law would give him a fair shake...
...find their original parents ranged from "disillusioned" to ecstatic. The majority felt "that they had personally benefited from the reunion, no matter what the outcome was." But adoptive parents were often deeply hurt that their children, even as adults, wanted to seek out their origins. The grief and rage shown by one adoptive mother, wrote her daughter, "were the same feelings a betrayed wife might experience toward her husband...
Black militancy. Black rage. Black separatism. Black crime. For years, these have been the catchwords that have discomfited and even chilled white Americans, for they imply an alien and hostile race scarcely at home in a land where it has lived for some 350 years. But another phrase may well become more familiar in the 1970s: Black middle class...
...does not have the excuse that he was given no opportunity. "As long as you can blame your failures on somebody else, there is a self-regulating system," says a black social psychologist in New York. Without that system, the black man who fails may give way to rage. Belligerence may serve as a cover-up for failure...