Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haig, Buzhardt and St. Clair, now united in the inescapable conclusion that Nixon must quit, set in motion a delicate maneuver to get the President to reach the decision on his own. Certain that he would rebel if pressured to resign, they persuaded him that the tape's contents must be made public. They knew there would be a tremendous outcry when Americans realized that Nixon had been lying to them all along. The strategy, of course, worked. The reaction was swift and overwhelmingly angry-and it told Richard Nixon what his advisers could not, dared not tell...
...mother. Randolph A. Hearst, 60, president of the San Francisco Examiner, is a solemn-faced man these days, but he smiled warmly at his daughter as he settled into the chair. Hearst disputed Dr. Harry Kozol, a psychiatrist who testified for the prosecution that Patty was an incipient rebel before her abduction. She was "a very bright girl, pretty," Hearst said. "She was strong-willed and pretty independent. She was fun to be with...
...psychiatric testimony-even that produced by the U.S. Rather, they should decide the case "on the facts . . . because that is, frankly, where it's at." The prosecutor said in effect that Patty had convicted herself with documents, tapes and various writings. Echoing Kozol, the prosecutor called Patty "a rebel in search of a cause" who had been a full-fledged member of the party that robbed the bank. He noted that the stolen $10,690 had been split nine ways-and that Patty had got a full share. Was it "reasonable," Browning asked, to believe that someone...
...daddy," by which he means that her somewhat pampered upbringing kept her from developing a secure self-image. Had she done so, reasons Collins, the likelihood of her adopting S.L.A. values "would be rather remote. It would appear to me next to impossible unless she had wanted to rebel before...
...Cornell, making art was the most private activity imaginable. It set him free, but the freedom was that of the puritan aristocrat, not the anticlerical rebel. He was the exquisite ruler of little boxes, an incomparably more gifted Ludwig II who constructed his Neuschwanstein-swans, grottoes, secret chambers, opera house and permanent twilight-in the space of half a cubic foot...