Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discharges his rage in one frenzied paragraph of violent passion in which his writing seems to be as much of a catharsis as the impeachment he writes about--"I impeached myself and exiled myself, removing myself from friends, family, and all the world, committing multiple ax murders and suicide all at the same time." And in the next paragraph Mee finally meets Haldeman, who of course turns out to be a nice guy--in fact "one of the great flat-out bores of our times...
Given the present state of our knowledge, it borders on the immoral for responsible observers to express anything resembling a sympathetic and tolerant attitude toward the kind of violent outbreak that occurred during the blackout. Along with Dante, I am inclined to believe that people who sympathize with the wrong aspects of a problem, even with the best intentions, have earned extraordinary punishment in a specialized corner of hell...
...Chicago's motion for a prevention order, and directed Chicago authorities to meet with black leaders and arrange for a march in Marquette Park. A grateful coalition leader, the Rev. A.I. Dunlap, said he would consider parading on a weekday, in order to reduce the potential for violent counterdemonstrations. Sounding very like his predecessor, Richard Daley, Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic says "I don't think it has anything to do with color," and adds "marching has turned out to be a regressive type of thing...
...choose between nonviolence and freedom, he would choose the latter. I agree with him entirely. Slavery is a violation of human life. We have done everything possible for a nonviolent solution, and we have failed. When Jesus found people defiling the synagogue, he whipped them. A violent situation cannot be solved by the nonviolent method...
This latest in a long line of movies about mental institutions is chiefly distinguished by what it does not do. It does not revel in too many lurid scenes of zany inmates being violent or bestial (though it has its share, enough to earn it an R rating). It does not idealize the mental institution as a citadel of scientific wisdom and compassion, nor caricature it as a latter-day Bedlam administered by sadists. It does not explain away its protagonist's schizophrenia with some unearthed childhood trauma, as if the condition were a sort of Freudian acrostic...