Word: firebrand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Antithesis of Brecht. In this "farce to make you sad," Ghelderode systematically and satirically derides all the causists who ever hoped to remold the world. There is Pantagleize's Negro servant Bamboola, a naive firebrand who believes that overnight "the Negroes will be made white." There is Blank, a poet who dabbles in politics and diddles in literature. There is Innocenti, a lawyer passing as a waiter and living out the logical absurdity of a politically engaged nihilist. Pantagleize is oblivious to all except Rachel Silberchatz, a Jewish girl as splinteringly comic in her undeviating revolutionary fanaticism as Pantagleize...
Died. Leon Mba, 65, President of the seven-year-old West African republic of Gabon; of cancer; in Paris. As a young nationalist firebrand, Mba (pronounced um-bah) gave his French rulers so many blisters that they accused him of cannibalism in 1938 and sent him into exile. On his return in 1946, he was so well behaved that he was boosted into the presidency after independence in 1960 and rescued by French paratroops when military men attempted a 1964 coup...
...paper. OEO bought the idea, and within a year, through the University of Southern California's medical school, had funded the new Watts Health Center. Built on land leased from Los Angeles for $1 a year, the center was opened last month. At the dedication ceremony, a young firebrand of Watts's Black Power movement introduced Dr. Giorgi to the crowd. As she mounted the podium, the young man threw his arms around her, kissed her, then whispered, grinning, "I hope you didn't mind, Doctor, but I know there are TV cameras here and I wanted...
...prisoners was no ordinary guerrilla. He was Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 39, the elusive Marxist firebrand, guerrilla expert and former second in command to Fidel Castro whose name had be come a legend after his disappearance from Cuba 2| years ago. Since that time, much of the world had thought Che dead (perhaps even at Castro's hands) until his presence in Bolivia was dramatically confirmed a short time ago (TIME, Sept...
...estimate that an appalling 65% of East St. Louis' housing is substandard; a full 21% of the work force is unemployed; nearly a third of the city's families-55%-60% of them Negroes-are on some form of relief. Fine kindling for riot, and last week Firebrand H. Rap Brown applied the match...