Word: lamplighting
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...Egalite, Fraternite!", was "Anarchy!" A man who regarded himself as "the most complete expression of the Revolution," a self-educated French printer named Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, became anarchism's most articulate spokesman. With the Revolution ringing in his ears, and using Rousseau's "natural society" for his lamplight, Proudhon wrote in passionate paradoxes. Authority, he said, fosters not order but disorder; laws create injustice; government leads to slavery. To his most famous question, framed in a book called What Is Property?, Proudhon answered in a single word: "Theft." Thus defining man's social institutions in terms...
...mostly ex-folk singers who turn out their own numbers, are older than their forerunners and more musically sophisticated. They write songs with titles like A Single Desultory Philippic and Sunshine Superman. The recurring themes are loneliness, alienation, and lovers who walk "on frosted fields of juniper and lamplight." Take Shadow Dreamsong...
...from entering school grounds. Some students took over the university's radio station, while others seized major buildings on the architecturally famed campus. When night fell, a group of students broke into the rector's office, forced Dr. Chavez to scribble a letter of resignation by lamplight. Thirty-five other faculty members, including Dean Sepulveda, resigned with...
...Poems by Lamplight. Frost was so completely a part of the present-day life of America that it was often hard to realize that he had been born during the Administration of Ulysses S. Grant. Another paradox: this professional Yankee was born in San Francisco, the son of a transplanted New England editor-politician. But his father died when Frost was eleven, and his mother took him back to what was to become his native soil. He tried two colleges (Dartmouth, Harvard), and quit both. In the years that followed, he scrabbled out an existence on a New Hampshire farm...
...Powell, the prospect is so real that he jokes with friends about becoming "the last President the country ever had who studied by lamplight.'' Powell has. in fact, climbed a long way. His father was a day laborer in Portsmouth...