Word: insurrectionism
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MEMORIES OF THE VIETNAM War, for those who did not serve in it, tend to be drawn from the image bank of television footage: a U.S. soldier applying a Zippo lighter to a peasant hut; a Saigon official shooting, on camera, a suspected Viet Cong terrorist through the head. But...
Eager to save this irreplaceable scientific resource--yet mindful that the Galapagos generate as much as $60 million annually in tourism revenues--the national government has tried to curb the worst excesses. But it has not provided park officials with the backing they need to fight poachers or to wipe...
All right, then. Imagine a minivan towing a small boat to the beach. The minivan is Odyssey, Apollo 13's command module (named after the Stanley Kubrick film about a man lost and transformed in space); the boat is Aquarius, the lunar module (after the song from Hair, Broadway's...
But revolution is a relative term. And for Democrats, cutting the growth and cherished programs of the New Deal and Great Society is indeed an act of insurrection-which has summoned up its own resistance, generaled by President Clinton. The man who in his Inaugural Address promised to "make change...
I have borrowed some forms and ideas from George Herbert, who, in addition to being a poet of piety, is a poet of insurrection. His divided self is what draws me to him. That there are always factions warring within us is an essential truth I like seeing transmuted into...