Word: insurrectionism
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Now the "pre-Code" era of 1930-34 is getting its due in two excellent books and a film retrospective. Mark A. Vierra's Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood (Abrams; 240 pages; $39.95) mixes gorgeous photos with tart memos and anecdotes from the period. Thomas Doherty's Pre...
This erasure of complexity is the normal fate of any icon. More paradoxical is that the humanity that worships Che has by and large turned away from just about everything he believed in. The future he predicted has not been kind to his ideals or his ideas. Back in the...
We grossly overestimated our power. Shockley survived our insurrection, and when it failed, we felt we had to look elsewhere for jobs. In the process of searching, we became convinced that our best course was to set up our own company to complete Shockley's original goal--which he had...
Menchu, a Quiche Mayan, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for this autobiographical work, which details the terrors perpetrated against her family during the Guatemalan insurrection.
Menchu, a Quiche Mayan, won the Nobel peace Prize in 1992 after this auto-biographical work was published, which details the terrors perpetrated against her family during the Guatemalan insurrection. But since the prize was awarded, the book's authorship and the truth of its accounts have been called into...