Word: rebelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JACK LONDON: THE MAN, THE WRITER, THE REBEL by Robert Barltrop Urizen Books/Pluto Press; 206 pages...
...West Germany. In an extraordinary act of defiance and courage, Bahro had agreed to be interviewed on West German television, which is watched by an estimated 1 million East Berliners every day. Bahro denounced Communist leaders as "exploiters" of the working class and proposed that true Marxists should rebel against the despotic socialism of Eastern Europe by forming a new League of Communists, harking back to Karl Marx's original group of supporters in London in the 1840s...
...rebel has mellowed
Some of the rebel schools will meet later this month to consider fighting the present law further on constitutional grounds. Other medical schools are pushing for new legislation. Spurred by the debate, the House Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Environment is planning a hearing to consider possible amendments to the law. One, sponsored by the subcommittee chairman, Representative Paul Rogers of Florida, would force medical schools to expand their third-year classes by 5%-or ten students-whichever figure is greater, but would let them select the transfers themselves. Under another amendment, backed by the A.A.M.C., schools would choose...
...fable about a lunatic asylum in the Pacific Northwest lacks all the subtlety and tension that marked the novel in its best moments. But it does offer a brilliant performance by Jack Nicholson perfectly cast as Randle Patrick McMurphy, the hard-living con man who sparks the inmates to rebel against the psychologically castrating Head Nurse only to find himself out-conned...