Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Nixon's decision to visit China in person has compromised the U.S. bargaining position: "It would be quite sufficient to send the Secretary of State." In recent years Historian Vincent Shih, a China emigré, has been leading a massive research project on the 19th century Taiping Rebellion, a 20-year peasant uprising against domestic corruption that the Communists often cite as a forerunner of their mass movement...
...TREAT WOMEN AS SEXUAL OBJECTS. This notion is now embraced by 57% of American women under 25, according to a recent poll by McCall's of 20,000 females. Many women who do not agree with the proposition still applaud the movement's rebellion against the Playboy philosophy. Even girls that girl-watchers watch are bored at being considered nothing more than Bunnies or potential bedmates and are delighted to reject the cosmetic look imposed by male tastes. Germaine Greer says that she is "sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything...
...Poltics of Piety In American Protestantism, as in American political parties, the bitterest factional fights are often within denominations rather than between them. A vigorous, angry, conservative rebellion is challenging the liberals who have dominated mainstream Protestant churches almost steadily since the 1920s. The central issues vary from church to church, but they center on three areas of disagreement: strict v. liberal interpretation of the Bible, evangelism v. social action, and a distrust of ecumenism v. an eagerness for church merger. U.S. Episcopalians felt the crunch of disagreement last fall (TIME, Nov. 2), Presbyterians and Methodists more recently. Nowhere...
...TINY IMAGISTS more or less dominate the poetry establishment-at least by the measurement of sheer volume. They derive from the original imagist movement, formulated before World War I by (among others) Ezra Pound and British Critic T.E. Hulme in rebellion against the lofty subject matter, plushy rhetoric and rocking-horse rhyme scheme of the past. Pound demanded a poetry "direct, free from emotional slither." Hulme insisted "it is essential to prove that beauty may be in small, dry things." Williams Carlos Williams, whose five-line poem The Red Wheelbarrow is perennially quoted as the purest imagist creation ever, announced...
Farnsworth served as a member of the Commission headed by Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, which inquired into the causes of the student rebellion at Columbia in 1968. He has headed the University Health Services since 1954, and will be replaced next year by Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker...