Word: violent
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...paternal grandmother's provincial estate and her mother's modest dwellings in Paris. The grandmother despised her "socially inferior" daughter-in-law and continually tried to separate her from the child. Sand later described herself as "the apple of discord" between the two rival mothers. Recalling one particularly violent separation from her mother, Sand wrote...
Sand was deeply committed to non-violent political change, characterizing herself at various points as a "Christian humanist" (she was a lapsed Catholic), a socialist and a communist. She fervently participated in the political upheavals in the 1840s and early '50s, writing "militantly socialist" novels and plays, publishing pamphlets and articles promoting revolution. In a letter, she wrote...
...lyrics are a bit violent and sick--we're engaged to writing sick songs...
Given this highly introspective, sensitive woman and a morally confusing, violent historical background, the answer can by no means be simple. Yet this thorough biography, written by a schoolmate-friend of Weil's and bringing together unpublished fragments of Simone's letters and thoughts that afford fascinating insights into her intellectual and ideological maturation, provides reasoned, judicious evidence that suggests some possibilities...
...Some people go out and join the army, but we write violent lyrics instead...