Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally lost. Yet in life they absorbed his greatest energies. "There is no salvation for the unemployed," he wrote in 1887, "but in the general combination of the workers for the freedom of labor-for the REVOLUTION." This belief permeates the 24 volumes of Morris' collected works. Rebellion was the connective tissue of his life. For reclamation, Morris needed the attentions of a Marxist historian: that event did not come until 1955, with the publication of Edward Thompson's William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary...
...fact. Laetrilemania seems to be only one facet of a broader rebellion. The signs of revolt are everywhere-from the refusal of motorists to buckle their seat belts to the fascination with occult healing. Some feminists insist on teaching themselves how to perform their own gynecological examinations in order to regain control, as they put it, of their own bodies from the male-dominated medical profession. Vastly different ideologies may be at play, but these grievances express a common discontent with officially proclaimed wisdom about public health. Though he himself is suffering from cancer (and refuses to take Laetrile...
Trilling's subjects range from the student rebellion of 1968 and the burgeonings of the women's movement to the fashion for Portnoy's Complaint and the novels of D.H. Lawrence-and what these books suggest about contemporary sexuality. Her 1964 essay mourning the killing of John F. Kennedy best displays the author's power to summon back events. In the intensity of the national bereavement on that "pitiless weekend," she writes, "Americans moved toward each other, groping for the connection which would dispel loneliness." The hope generated by the Kennedy presidency, as Trilling accurately notes...
According to the Adams Club Directory of Harvard Historians, which is put out by the graduate students in the History Department, Nelson has been writing a thesis entitled, "Beyond the Lockean Paradigm: Ideology and the Established Order in England from the Glorious Revolution to the American Rebellion...
...wait! Princess Leia does not have the plans. She has entrusted them to a little robot, Artoo Detoo, in the hope that they will reach a former general of the rebellion on the planet Tatooine. Artoo Detoo and his delicate robot friend Threepio have landed on Tatooine. As luck would have it, they have been picked up by Luke Skywalker, a handsome young farmer. Though Luke does not know it, his father also fought the Empire before he was foully murdered by Darth Vader. Luke, Artoo Detoo and the ungainly Threepio have been attacked by Tatooine's native nasties...