Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rubin Carter explains on the first page of his autobiography, The Sixteenth Round, that his name, Hurricane, "provides an accurate description of the destructive forces that rage within my soul." The book as a whole reveals a man with a frightening potential for violence and vengeance--Judge Larner and the all-white jury that convicted him must hope in the interest of their own physical safety that Hurricane be kept behind bars. No mediating agent stands between Hurricane's sense of injustice and the outside world. When as a boy a white drunk tried to rape a member...
...looks like I'm gettin' ready to fight someone," Muhammad Ali mused as he stared at the 20,000 people packed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week. The occasion was a battle of sorts: a benefit concert for Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, a black middleweight boxer imprisoned since 1966 for a murder that he claims he did not commit. "You people out there, you have the connection and the complexion to get the protection," quoth Ah before surrendering the stage to a four-hour musical downpour that starred Bob Dylan, sounding like the old adenoidal prince...
Once underway, the study may continue to influence its subjects and their relationships. "In some cases," Rubin writes in an upcoming article in the American Psychologist coauthored by his former research assistant, Cynthia Mitchell, "our study served to strengthen a relationship; in other cases, to facilitate its dissolution." Rubin believes that the study affected, one way or the other, "considerably more than half of the couples...
...least some cases, Rubin says, participation "led to conflicts in which one partner was more ready to disclose his or her feelings...
...Thus, Rubin not only observed but also influenced and, in some cases, helped bring about the demise of the relationships he sought to study. Rubin believes that his project did not cause "many" breakups which "would not have occurred anyway." The risks exist, however, and lead to questions of how or whether subjects can be apprised of the dangers of participation before they become involved...