Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...petulantly in their leaflet that they tried a year ago to persuade the university to close the center: "Then followed seven months of futile protest, ranging from nonviolent marches in November to rock-throwing attacks this May. By ignoring reasoned argument and negotiation, the university's managers provoked rebellion." Ironically, Fassnacht, who was working late on experiments with materials at low temperatures, was opposed to the Viet Nam War. "I'm sure he was sympathetic to many of the discontents here on campus," his father said last week...
Died. Beniamino Bufano, 72, San Francisco sculptor and eccentric; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. As contentious as he was tiny (5 ft., 120 lbs.), Bufano was always in rebellion against something. During World War I he went so far as to send his self-severed trigger finger to President Wilson as a protest against war. His art was stable: colossal statues, with sweeping elliptical lines, were done in stone and metal. His themes ranged from a black cat named Tombstone to the soaring Peace at San Francisco's airport; but his favorite was St. Francis of Assisi...
...Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would Remember the Ladies. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention are not paid to the Ladies, we are determined to foment a Rebellion." "Depend upon it," John Adams replied with kindly condescension, "We know better than to repeal our Masculine systems...
...spiritual heiresses of Abigail Adams are rising in the rebellion she predicted. To men-and a great many women-the onset of the new women's movement seems startlingly abrupt. In many ways, however, the new feminism is developing along the lines of the civil rights movement. A young, assertive Women's Liberation Movement has brought new publicity and fire to the older, more genteel crusade, bewildering and sometimes outraging men in the way that black radicals infuriate and frighten whites...
...point that unless the government puts into practice its long-promised land reform, restless peasants will take matters into their own hands. The specter that haunts responsible Indian leaders is that next time the marchers may be led by a new and vicious political sect that has made peasant rebellion and mayhem parts of its policy...