Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although that demand was subsequently seized upon by state officials as an example of the prisoners' dangerous radicalism, it was soon abandoned by the rebel leaders when other inmates pointed out how hopeless it was. Throughout the uprising, in fact, the inmates never quite lived up to their fierce rhetoric, although their threats to kill the hostages sounded credible enough. Underlying the bullying tone of their demands was an unmistakably genuine plea that even if they were convicted criminals, all they wanted was to be treated like human beings. "We are men," said the inmate statement. "We are not beasts...
...prison tragedy has clearly been a shock to the values and ideals of Attica's citizens. There is a bitterness toward the rebel prisoners who led the riots that in many cases borders on hatred. One man referred to them as "outlaws who are out to destroy our country and burn our cities, and now want to destroy our prison." A woman who refused to give her name went even further. "Now when I see a Negro I feel different," she said, "now I feel uncomfortable." But there is also an understanding of the prisoners' lot. "I felt they...
...college, by his own admission, young Fred never fitted into student life, but became a rebel whose lack of self-understanding now amazes him. He wrote an editorial attacking Phi Beta Kappa, helped cover the walls at Class Day exercises with "bitter caricatures of the faculty," and made such a shambles of commencement ceremonies that he was warned by the college president that he would not get his degree unless he quieted down...
...Cain than Abel. Yet it is closer to a more entertaining tradition-the literary monster made real because he has been made so human. Variously and happily, Grendel suggests Caliban, grumping around Prospero's island like the first exploited colonial, Milton's Lucifer, that voluble, self-righteous rebel simmering eternally on a lake of fire, even King Kong on the Empire State Building, bemusedly plucking at those 30-cal. holes in his furry chest...
With the best beaches off limits and only one-third or so of the swimmable, sunbathable seashore available to the public, the would-be bathers began to rebel. In 1965 hundreds of visitors at St.Raphaël, about 25 miles west of Cannes, demonstrated against the construction of a stone wall that would have blocked access to the charming cove of Santa Lucia. In 1967, at nearby Le Lavandou, local Provençaux brought out their hunting rifles in an effort to liberate the "abusively expropriated" beaches. Sympathizing with the protesters, Film Maker René Clair and Playwright Andr...