Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although there is no immediate threat to Thatcher's tenure, the debate showed that the Cabinet could rebel against her if there is no economic improvement by next spring. Says one minister: "Things will never be quite the same after last Thursday." A growing number of Conservative backbenchers fear that their constituents are fast losing patience with the sacrifices demanded by Thatcherism. Warned one Cabinet minister: "We must recapture the middle ground or suffer a whirlwind of discontent...
...decision to rebel came with agonizing difficulty to most patriots. Torn between a traditional love for the monarch and a growing conviction that his surrogates were abusing the royal prerogative, many like Quincy felt a crushing ambivalence toward their colonial rulers. Indeed, despite his vehement rhetoric, Quincy had once actually defended Hutchinson from the "Rage-intoxicated Rabble" who attacked his home years earlier upon passage of the Stamp Act of 1765. This kind of contradictory behavior characterized the actions of many men of conscience in the late colonial says; it did not come from political opportunism, but from heart-felt...
Shaw examines the psychological imperatives that drove four specific patriots--James Otis, John Adams, Joseph Hawley and Josiah Quincy--to rebel against the king. For an historian seeking to identify the roots of rebellion, they are not a surprising group: inevitably, they all had problems with their fathers, or father-figures, early in life--the sure trigger to a Pavlovian response from a Freud-fancier. But Shaw pursues the issue with considerable sophistication. The patriots. Shaw believes, saw Hutchinson as the perverter of the king's wishes. By attributing the onus for contested British actions--particularly the Stamp Act. Townshend...
...step, and the meaning of that decision reverberated long after the tie to the mother-country had been broken. Many of the issues in that decision were concrete, and the patriots, a uniquely articulate generation, spoke of them with eloquence and passion. But implicit in the decision to rebel were some forces that the patriots did not, indeed could not, understand. For his effort to confront those problems, Peter Shaw deserves credit...
Last week, in the Philippines, the government of President Ferdinand Marcos ordered Maryknoll Father Edward Shellito out of the country, claiming that he had not only fomented political unrest but had portrayed Jesus Christ as a rebel...