Word: insurrectionism
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Basically, it is music for the man who likes the plays of Samuel Beckett, the paintings of Marcel Duchamp and the films of Antonioni. It begins in a mood of tension: excerpts from Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Brazilian mythology are read against a highly dissonant background. In...
A Brighter Day. The conference simply brushed the Cohn-Bendit walkout aside. Said Italy's Umberto Marzocchi, the occasional chairman (the anarchists' anti-authoritarian philosophy, of course, would have made any more permanent leadership intolerable): "The youth who walked out think that revolution is synonymous with insurrection. They...
Afraid that antiwar demonstrators might paralyze the Democratic National Convention, Mayor Richard Daley, author of last April's notorious shoot-tokill edict, prepared for full-scale insurrection. "No one," he vowed, "is going to take over the streets." The entire police force, nearly 12,000 men, was ordered onto...
Died. Paul Egan, 69, mayor of Aurora, Ill., from 1953 to 1961, whose antics drew national attention to the city of lights; of cancer; in Aurora. "When I first ran for mayor," said Egan, "they tried to prove I was crazy." He did little to prove otherwise, fired Aurora'...
All that, of course, was before the Bomb. Since World War II ended, not a single war has been formally declared. Yet it has been a period of almost continuous violence. Besides Korea and Viet Nam, there have been at least 50 other conflicts of major proportions. In this big...