Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither the social nor the personal violence of the 1960s was a new feature of American life. Many historians consider the pre-Revolutionary period one of the most violent these shores have seen. Some of the turmoil, necessary for protest, had a point. Much more of it was pointless. Vigilantism, lynching, I cruel and sadistic i punishments were -common on the frontier. Backwoods ruffi-i ans as described in the journal of a Virginia tutor commonly engaged in "Kicking, Scratching, Pinching, Biting, Butting, Tripping, Throttling, Gouging, Cursing, Dismembering." Ratting and cockfighting were common diversions...
THERE ARE OTHER ELEMENTS contributing to this collapse. The novella, actually a padded short story, moves quickly because Ellison writes in a clean, brief, violent prose. In A Boy And His Dog, Jones slows down the action, lengthening scenes and drawing out the conclusion with wasted footage. Jones also films the blasted landscapes and ruins of the future listlessly where a Kubrick would exploit the opportunity to examine the new world with camera work...
...almost impossible to pick up a Spanish newspaper or switch on television last week without seeing grim photographs of dead policemen or pictures of coffins ready for burial. The images bore dramatic witness to the increasingly bitter and violent confrontation between the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco and its radical opponents. By week's end, eleven more Spaniards were dead. Thirty police officers and members of the Guardia Civil and 29 civilians have been killed since January...
...measure of most lives, the violent acts of Patty Hearst, Squeaky Fromme and Sara Jane Moore appear deranged. But were the three women legally insane? Are they sane now? Such questions are already central to the criminal proceedings against each of them, for, following long tradition, the invocation of a psychiatric defense is almost mandatory. "When you find a guy with a smoking gun standing over a dead body, you immediately call the psychiatrist," says Selwyn Rose, himself a psychiatrist and law professor at Loyola University of Los Angeles. That tradition is now undergoing considerable criticism. Most experts consider...
When Constance goes to prison under an assumed name-in order to be treated like her commoner sisters-she no longer seems a historical figure but a flesh-and-blood participant in that sad, violent, wholly romanticized period mislabeled the good old days, when men were men and women were voteless...