Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welfare system is a living nightmare that has reached the point of the involuntary scream and chill awakening. The nation spent about $14.2 billion on welfare last year, more than twice the outlay of only five years ago. Yet the 13.5 million Americans?6.3% of the population?who received that aid are only half the estimated number of the needy and eligible. Increased by the recession and the growing activism of welfare rights groups, the rolls continue to grow in every part of the country. After 35 years of legislation and programs, the world's wealthiest nation seems caught...
...apparently trying to relive all the hurts of the past in order to clear them from his mind. The Rollins Stone interview may thus be regarded as a kind of public therapy. But especially in Part 2?out this week?a rather whiny self-portrait emerges. In a primal scream, Lennon complains that nobody recognized his greatness during pre-Beatle school days in Liverpool. "I used to say to me auntie, 'You throw my f?in' poetry out and you'll regret it when I'm famous.' " Auntie threw it out anyway. Summing up Brian Epstein, the discoverer...
...understand, but I am no better able to cope. Better able, perhaps, to laugh it off, or to find a friend to scream with me, but little more, despite the shrink, the women's group, the Promising Future in Journalism. It's still winter reading period in Cambridge...
...their November meeting, the Overseers passed a resolution asking the executive committee to meet with the nominee before making its approval. "If they don't, I'm going to scream up and down the place," one Overseer said Tuesday...
...Saturday morning inspections at Carson, no reveille or retreat formations. At the Inscape Coffee House, black light illuminates slogans proclaiming that "Life is a Big Happening," and a peace symbol adorns a beam. Here officers drop in to rap with the troops. "At coffeehouses off base they scream about the Establishment," notes one colonel. "Here they can scream at the Establishment." Five enlisted men's clubs serve up beer, whisky and go-go girls. In an experiment, the G.I.s have fashioned their quarters into semiprivate cubicles, brightening them with colorful rugs, curtains, posters and pinups...