Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involved in a heated argument as to whether or not such a creature as man has the right to survive. After reading "Rebellion at Lamar," I am almost ready to concede that he does not. The actions of the adults who attacked helpless children were incredibly vicious, but that their neighbors, in the calmer moments afterward, applauded the attack as "what is right" is shocking beyond words. As Thomas Jefferson said in reference to a related problem: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just...
...aged 14 to 18. Ralphie wanted to go back home to The Bronx. The doctor, Judianne Densen-Gerber, founder of Odyssey House, and Ralphie's young friends there were trying to make him recognize that if he left them, he would have no chance to break out of the vicious circle of heroin addiction. Ralphie stayed for two more days. Then he went home...
...what can turn white radicals into militant revolutionaries. Mark's development should provide an answer, but the progression is implausible. In a truck, driving with his roommate, he talks about a need to Act Now, and soon afterwards he's shaken up in a police station by some appropriately vicious Pigs. This prompts him without further thought to buy a gun. Frechette's acting stresses listless pragmatism, and his quick transition to Militancy is not convincing. But Antonioni's mind is elsewhere: While Mark and friend drive, he is more concerned with urban abstraction than the soundtrack's exposition. Anyone...
...defendants' provocations were ingenious and seemingly endless. They delivered songs and poems from the witness stand; two of the accused showed up wearing what looked like judges' robes. They irked Hoffman by calling him "Julie." Often their words and actions were vicious. While Assistant Prosecutor Richard Schultz was examining one witness, he claims, "Rennie Davis moved over and kept whispering things like 'You dirty fascist...
...most vicious slurs on us is the blame for prison "gang rapes." These rapes are invariably done by people who consider themselves straight. The victims of these rapes are us and straights who can't defend themselves. The press campaign to link prison rapes with homosexuality is an attempt to make straights fear and despise us. so they can oppress us more. It's typical of the fucked-up straight mind to think that homosexual sex involves tying a guy down and fucking him. That's aggression, not sex. If that's what sex is for a lot of straight...