Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it must remain a secret society to avoid the law. Into this kind of nightmare world-for it is a nightmare world-there can be no entrance for the forces of righteousness until . . . they are delivered from the fears, the glamour and even the crusading spirit of the rebel against law and convention who claims to be a martyr by persecution...
...Though a rebel in some respects, Roosevelt did not turn his back on things social. He was impressed enough to write home once: "THE CROWN PRINCE OF SIAM was at the game, and came to the FLY after it for some 'afternoon tea,' i.e. a little champagne!" And while heading the CRIMSON, he refused to stop running the list of men who made the various clubs. (The next year's editors stopped "that concession to snobbery.") Democratic though he was, he remained a gentleman in the Roosevelt tradition...
Like many energetic young men, T.R. was a bit of a rebel, and refused to knuckle under completely to the academic grind at Harvard. He read voraciously, but for information, not for exams. He became absorbed in certain areas of the curriculum, and tended to ignore the rest. As he noted in his autobiography, "I worked drearily at the Gracchi because I had to; my conscientious and much-to-be-pitied professor dragging me through the theme by main strength, with my feet firmly planted in dull and totally idea-proof resistance...
...really discarded the socialistic beliefs that he held earlier, including drastic land reforms and nationalization of U.S.-owned power companies. Castro persists in the cane-burning campaign-a pointless waste of the country's wealth that may well anger many Cubans. Up in the hills, notes one conservative rebel with a mixture of admiration and fear, "he acts like a king before the Magna Carta, sitting under a tree and dispensing justice...
...alternative is cooperating with Batista in the election that he has set for June1. To this idea, rebels of every coloring snap one answer: "We will not deal with a gangster for our country." They will stick with Castro, who may become the brilliant liberator that his young followers see, or only, as one older rebel worried last week, "a man on horseback." It was not lost on thoughtful Cubans last week that Colonel Fermin Cowley, murdered by the rebels and mourned by Batista, was an idealistic young rebel himself 25 years...