Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the occasional note of optimism voiced by admissions directors to placate their alumni and salve their wounded spirits, the outlook is bleak for the prep schools. If the economic squeeze isn't damaging enough, the growing rebellion of once awed or indifferent thirteen-year-olds should be enough to doom a few schools and hurt, if not cripple, many others...
...biggest confrontation occurred in Szczecin, where workers in the giant Warski shipyards verged on rebellion. Angered by what they considered the new government's slow pace in answering their grievances, they staged slowdowns and drafted a list of 2,000 demands. Among them: pay increases, release of rioters still held in jail, and the removal of some Politburo members...
...billion in Food for Peace funds has been used for military purposes in the past 17 years. That sets Stone off against military assistance: "It encourages the effort to confront political and economic problems with force. It exacerbates economic distress by imposing the burden of large armies, and intensifies rebellion by repression." He scorns military-assistance teams trained specially to get involved in the life of the country where they are stationed: "This is a distant echo of the white man's burden, of our smug belief we can govern other people's lives better than they...
...struck youth when he wryly observes the machinelike aspects of civilization and objects to the meaninglessness of a life in which people become what they are "least afraid of becoming." Given such a context, Peter calculates that pot, with all its drawbacks, provides a means of honest and pleasurable rebellion and escape...
...time of great unrest and turmoil in ancient Judea. Restive under the rule of pagan Rome, the Jews of Palestine in the 1st century A.D. repeatedly defied their conquerors with covert gestures of opposition and open acts of rebellion. The Roman response was usually swift and cruel. Perhaps because he participated in one of these uprisings or committed some other grievous offense in the eyes of Jerusalem's stern rulers, a young Judean named Yehohanan (a Hebrew form of John) was sentenced to death. Like thousands of other Jews-including Jesus of Nazareth -who were also condemned...