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Before dispersing, the protesters marched to Holyoke Center on Mass Ave. chanting "Lebanon, Grenada, U.S. out now" and "The Marine scum must...
...thousands of wife beaters who happen to be in prison (almost all are there for some other, less peculiar crime) regard rapists with contempt, and rapists in turn call the cellblocks' child abusers scum. But in fact the three groups have some rough affinities. The privately violent are often alcoholic or drug-dependent. All three species tend to have low opinions of themselves; they get violent, psychoanalysts say, because it gives them a cheap squirt of power. Like most criminals, they are immature and impulsive. Everything they want they want instantly. And they are uncommonly isolated people, often virtually friendless...
...research in clinical psychology, as a fellow at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. His goal, he explains, is to create something of permanence. Says he: "I am tired of making a soap bubble, watching it shine with iridescence, then having it explode while I am left with a soapy scum to say plaintively, 'You should have been here a moment ago: it was so nice...
...gaps left by the rest of the work. Rock, he correctly argues, has forever lost its innocence to "artistic self-awareness." Even primitivism, from the Velvet Underground to the New York Dolls to Flipper, is essentially self-conscious. Today's hart-core punks are often far from the lowlife scum image they create and the violence of their music comes more as a rebellious expression of frustration with a static, repressive, bourgeois society than as a statement of being...
...thought--King Specials! Scram, scum," he cries after a quick examination of the jockeys. With a swift kick in the shins he rolls the fop across the cobblestone lane, secure in the feeling of a job well done...