Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ACOMPANIED by an intermediary - a civilian Moslem who sympathizes with the rebel soldiers - I set out from Basilan City in a motorized outrigger called a pump boat. We rode through the tranquil coastal waters for 30 minutes, then turned into a narrow creek canopied with palm fronds. It was another 30 minutes before we reached the rendezvous point - a lonely clearing on a coconut plantation...
...more than good acting and clever staging, and the reason for the drama's failure lies in the nature of the Prometheus myth itself. The idea of an indifferent God whose supposed wisdom seems more like folly is familiar today; the words of those who urge the rebel to conform ring true. What is incredible about an expression of the Prometheus myth today is the concept of a savior of mankind. About the Titan's successful defiance of tyranny the play revolves; upon the distance of this idea from our own experience, the production sinks into a dramatic rite...
...does not agree that "it is society's fault that we are what we are." For one thing, there will always be strong individuals who will step forth from "the conditioned mass." Just as evil is a distinguishing characteristic of human beings, so too is the capacity to rebel, to fight against bureaucracy or loss of integrity. In man's relationship to society, May believes, a new ethic is needed for our age-"an ethic of intention, based on the assumption that each man is responsible for the effects of his own actions...
Shortly after Zulfikar AliBhutto ousted the governors of Pakistan's rebel provinces, TIME'S Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter interviewed the President at his Rawalpindi residence. "If there was crisis in the air," Schecter cabled, "Bhutto did not show it. Dressed in a stylish double-breasted suit, he seemed self-assured and anxious to be his own man. He is firm in his belief that he has made important gains in solving Pakistan's economic and political problems. Now he feels there will be a 'magic spring,' for in the end the subcontinent must live...
...Beardsley and Art Nouveau. Yet what they were doing was in no way as radical or influential as what their contemporaries across the Channel, the Impressionists, were doing. If the pre-Raphaelites contributed anything to the mainstream of modern art, it was an attitude. They were the first to rebel against the heavily sentimentalized genre scenes of the academy schools. Compared to these soap operas in paint, the Pre-Raphaelites looked for an art that was more serious and more personal. And perhaps even more important, their close associations with the poets of their time, particularly Tennyson and Swinburne, created...