Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lifetime. Books like Ann Beattie's Chilly Scenes of Winter or Medved and Wallechinsky's What Really Happened to the Class of '65 detail the survivor's attempts to find a niche in a world they have rejected, a way to go on living now that the rebellion has failed to initiate substantial social change...
Massive Search. Behind Rocco's oft-expressed contempt for the Communists, says Author Ravera, is Italian youth's rebellion against all authoritarian patterns, including those of the left. Teenagers, she says, see the Communist Party as "practically in the government now and stressing all the old-fashioned bourgeois values." The young couple is equally scornful of sexual absolutes. "Twenty years ago," explains Ravera, "a girl had to arrive at marriage a virgin. Now she has to arrive not a virgin. Both are authoritarian...
...BULK OF the film dwells on Carrie's rebellion against the domineering rule of her mother--in which case her supernatural powers serve her well--and the subsequent blossoming of the film's heroine. The stimulus behind the transformation appears in the form of an invitation to the senior prom from the Big Man on Campus (William Katt), a touching gesture of compassion that is suggested to him by his steady. To Carrie, the prom represents more than a good time or a night to be remembered fondly; it is an act of liberation, a time when she learns...
...scene is a poor, bedraggled Dublin district during the doomed 1916 Easter Week Rebellion. O'Casey had no illusions about that sadly absurdist affray. Commandant Jack Clitheroe (Clive Geraghty) of the Irish Citizen Army is a crackbrained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it. The Dublin tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable souls, passionately unified by a nationalistic cause...
Reich's account of his life is essentially a thin outline on which he strings the clichés of the gray flannel '50s and the youth rebellion at Berkeley and Yale. As in The Greening of America, he wafts nonsensical generalizations like dandelion seeds: "An alienated society is no less a political tyranny because the oppression is found within each individual, rather than coming from a single source such as an army or a dictator...