Word: rebel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...urbane, greying, 57-year-old Candidate Alfaro. Minister to the U. S. from 1922 to 1936-except for a two-year hitch in domestic politics-Career Man Alfaro has served on several Pan-American committees, has picked up decorations from Peru, Venezuela, France. As President pro tem after Rebel Arias' coup, he balanced the budget, turned the National Bank deficit into a credit. With the support of the Leftist Liberals he set out to crack the N. R. P., which has dominated Panama's politics since...
...deep-bitten protestant is a rebel in any language. America has seen many such: among the still memorable ones, Rev. John Wheelwright who, with his sister-in-law Anne Hutchinson, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for feeling good;* and Rev. Henry Ward Called Antinomianism by Puritan divines...
...What then? Preach I will, licensed or not. . . . Will you go with me into the wilderness?" Today the American wilderness sprouts populations instead of trees. But the protestant blood of the Rev. Mr. Wheelwright, the Rev. Mr. Beecher, and others like them, flows on unchanged-a bright, early-American, rebel...
...rebel New England's rebel against dominion...
Poetry and politics do not seem like strangers to each other in Wheelwright's book, because its author had no doubt whatever that political freedom and verbal truth are the interrelated objectives of every wide-awake, decent man on earth. Political Self-Portrait is a kind of rebel's hornbook, full of references to the doctrines and deeds of those who Wheelwright felt have most signally helped-and hindered-truth-telling and liberty. On the angels' side, among others, are Prometheus, Jesus Christ, and the old Rev. John. On the other side may be found Cain, Stalin...