Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second accent might be called ritualized rage. It is irritating, infuriating, a deliberate shock tactic that also provides relief and release for those who use it. It can be turned on at will. This does not mean that it is phony, that much of the anger isn't real; but it is controlled, a game, and not without its dangers. The third accent is true despair -not tough, not raging, but steadily bitter, the result not of hopelessness but of insufficient hope. It is the third accent, of course, that is the most deeply disturbing. Black militancy continues...
...United States, to the Governor of the state, the spelling a trifle erratic. Everywhere, the calls to specific action: organize transport, line up pickets, circulate petitions. It has often been noted that in times of grief or stress, doing concrete things, even small things, brings a sense of relief. So it is here. To a great extent, the purpose of such strikes is action quite divorced from ultimate accomplishment, a desperate desire to shake off a sense of impotence, the need to do something, anything...
...week's end, convoys bearing the symbol of the International Red Cross escorted foreigners to the Amman airport to be flown to Beirut and Athens aboard airliners sent by the U.S. and West German governments. Relief workers added up the casualties in three days of civil war. The Red Crescent (the Arab Red Cross) estimated 200 dead and 500 wounded. "There was so much shooting," said one medical worker, "that we couldn't even bury the dead." About 50 wounded were treated in hospitals in Damascus, where they were taken by ambulance when Jordanian hospitals became overcrowded...
...Southern Command in Panama came a 40-man rescue team three days after the quake, and giant Chinook helicopters from the carrier Guam lifted supplies into remote Andean villages that otherwise were completely cut off from the outside world by landslides. Washington also donated $10 million in relief funds...
...explain what Radical Chic is all about. Publicity, he says, has been the traditional short cut for "New York's social parvenus" on their way to Society. And nowadays there's no publicity like social-conscience publicity, especially if it is black and beautiful. "What a relief it was socially in New York," writes Wolfe, "when the leadership seemed to shift from middle class to . . . funky I From A. Philip Randolph, Dr. Martin Luther King and James Farmer . . . to Stokely, Rap, LeRoi and Eldridge...