Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pivotal mission. He hoped in time to end the Algerian Moslems' four-year-old war for independence. But first he had to end the threat of civil war posed by the insurgent French soldiers and settlers of Algeria. Only the day before, Leon Delbecque, dynamic leader of the rebel junta (TIME, June 9), his once boundless faith in De Gaulle shaken by his idol's failure to name a single insurgent leader to a government post, had appeared in Paris to warn the general that unless De Gaulle revamped his Cabinet, his trip to Algeria would...
...Djakarta, in evident eagerness to keep alive the new friendship with the U.S., Sukarno made no big show of the prize captive, but left the announcement to be made by the military commander at Amboina, Lieut. Colonel Herman Pieters. Pieters was himself briefly a member of the rebel colonels. He quoted Pilot Pope as saying that he had been hired by the rebels at $10,000 a month and had flown most of the destructive missions over East Indonesia in which foreign and native shipping was sunk and damaged (TIME, May 12). Pope, a serious and not a swashbuckling type...
RANDOLPH PHILLIPS, the rebel stockholder who waged proxy battle for seat on board of Pennsylvania Railroad (TIME, May 26), failed. He got only 70% of votes needed...
...same room, or while the mortgage slowly and respectably strangles the life, the love, the adventure and the talent out of us . . . Whether they know it or not, the revolutionaries have bred a generation of counter-revolutionaries." Such whines suggest that the Angry Young Man is a rebel with a cause, a disorganization man in transition who will eventually make his peace with a society in which he means to make good...
Self & Sensation. The case of the hipster is not so hopeful. He is a rebel without a cause who shirks responsibility on the ground that he has the H-bomb jitters. His disengagement from society is so complete that he treats self as the only reality and cultivates sensation as the only goal. But the self-revolving life is a bore, a kind of life-in-death that requires ever intenser stimulants to create even the illusion of feeling. Stepping up the tempo, "go, go, go" becomes the rhythm of madness and self-destruction. The future of the Beat Generation...