Word: vent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Ringleaders. At an inquiry after the fire, convicts testified that two white prisoners and a Negro had planned the riot, possibly to mask a prison break, possibly just to vent some frustrations. "They really wanted to tear it up," testified one prisoner, but for what reason he could not-or would not-say. Nor could the three ringleaders. All had perished in the blaze...
...interpretation that might be drawn from these results is that students who used the Psychiatric Service were less willing to be conformists in social situations, less willing to be deferent in their relationships with others, and felt a stronger pressure to give vent to their impulse in overt behavior...
Kerr's firing was not all that much of a surprise; many of the regents have openly blamed him for failing to pre vent two years of intermittent disorder at the university's oldest and most prestigious branch at Berkeley. But the timing of the dismissal was a shock. Only a week earlier, Kerr had fought forcefully, in joint cause with most of the regents, against a 20% budget cut and a tuition fee proposed by newly installed Governor Ronald Reagan (TIME...
Wilson found it difficult "to maintain friendly relations with men of superior intellect or position," write the authors. Why? They were father figures against whom he could vent the repressed hostility toward his own father, which, as any amateur Freudian knows, lurked behind the ostentatious affection. "Wilson's immoderate Super-Ego demanded from him the impossible." Why? "Because he was the son of God." Faced with aggressive (that is, masculine) resistance to his peace program, he practiced the feminine strategy of capitulation. Why? "His unconscious desire to be Christ invented the comforting theory that he could obtain all that...
Punching the Producer. Members of the studio audience, who themselves tend to resemble a road company of Marat/Sade, are invited into the "Beef Box" to vent further ill logic, ill manners, neologisms and non sequiturs. Guests are frequently told to "get lost" or they steam off the set voluntarily; one threw a phone at Joe (it missed), punched the producer in the mouth. During last year's Watts riot, Pyne displayed a gun on screen in front of a Negro guest and was himself bounced for a week. Pyne does not deny charges that he prefers heat over light...