Word: violenceâ
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...viola tions of the trust upon which all intimate human relations depend: it is cruelty exercised on those nearest, most vulnerable, least able or inclined to defend themselves from their attackers. For those who commit private violence, who abuse children, beat wives and rape, the usual reasons behind public violence???greed, dementia, vengeance, feral antisocial anger?do not generally apply. How to explain acts of brutality so personal and thus so specially disturbing...
When The Muppet Show began, Miss Piggy was a nobody, a mere member of the porker chorus. In less than three years, by a dazzling combination of talent, beauty and physical violence???when batting her eyelashes doesn't bring surrender, she lashes out with a karate chop?she has become a star. Her finest moments now may be when she plays the ingenue role in the show's arrestingly torpid "Pigs in Space" series, a send-up that is funny because it assumes, correctly, that the viewer is very bored by astronauts. Aboard the spaceship Swinetrek, she is every...
Scientists have good reason to be disturbed?and excited ?by the idea. For many centuries, astronomers thought of the universe as quiet, serene and essentially unchanging. Now it is known to be the scene of incredible violence???of exploding galaxies and stars, of prodigiously energetic quasars, a universe that still literally reverberates from its fiery birth. Many scientists are all but convinced that black holes lie at the root of many of these awesome events. They are fascinated and somewhat frustrated by the fact that the immense gravity of black holes prevents any escape from them. As a consequence...
...Americans could agree with Cornell Economist Douglas Dowd, a Berrigan ally: "It would be quite amusing if it weren't so serious." Is it possible that the Berrigans?who, though lawbreakers and rebels, have always preached non-violence???have now turned to violent and bizarre methods? Or is it possible that the Government has drawn monstrous conclusions from flimsy evidence, perhaps taking protesters' idle speculations with total solemnity? The first could help rekindle the fires of protest that have seemed dimmer lately and also revive lingering fear and hate of radicals. The second could again put in question the Government...
...Across the U.S., the universal fear of violent crime and vicious strangers?armed robbers, packs of muggers, addict burglars ready to trade a life for heroin?is a constant companion of the populace. It is the cold fear of dying at random in a brief spasm of senseless violence???for a few pennies, for nothing...