Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prized along with $1,000 originals and snapped up even faster. But the sudden flurry of boutiques, many of them stocked with French ready-to-wear as well as with newly inventive American-made designs, has put high style within easy access and a sensible price range. The youth rebellion crashed the old-guard fashion stockades by putting it all together (often out of trunks and thrift-shop remnants) with wit and drama...
...Biafran officials, all other prisoners of war have been sent home. The East Central State, where the Ibos are concentrated, is administered by an Ibo, Anthony Ukpabi Asika, 33, who studied at U.C.L.A., taught at the University of Ibadan, and sided with the federal government in Lagos during the rebellion. But seven of Asika's ten ministers were officials of the secessionist Biafran government...
...Prime Minister William Gladstone grumbled that the Pope was trying to revive "universal monarchy"; Germany's Otto von Bismarck used the dogma as a pretext for his anti-Catholic Kulturkampf (struggle for civilization); a group of Catholics in Central Europe formed the schismatic Old Catholic Church partly in rebellion against the doctrine...
...Shaw placed it in 1777, during the American Revolution, in a New Hampshire town, and proceeded to aim a lot of barbs at the bumbling British. King George's soldiers are moving from town to town, hanging well-known citizens as examples they hoped would deter Americans from further rebellion. When Dick Dudgeon, a reckless reprobate, is mistaken for a Presbyterian minister, he prevents the minister's wife from disabusing the arresting soldiers and marches off to his supposed death...
...Racism and radical politics have besieged its encrusted prerogatives and cherished prejudices. Many policemen respond to the situation by joining Alamo, an unofficial organization dedicated to superpatriotism and the myth of the white man's burden. Alamos take solemn loyalty oaths and watch slides of the Boxer Rebellion. One member pines for the time when "Watts was the plural of a unit of electrical power" and "Detroit was a baseball team." For security reasons, all assume code names, such as MacArthur (Douglas), Crockett (Davy), Wayne (John) and Roosevelt (Theodore). History and Hollywood are given equal credibility ratings...