Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Born Losers. Sometimes this clutter gets an enlivening jolt from the real world. For Benson this occurs when President Nixon visits China-when "The Foreign Devil re-enters the Forbidden City. After 72 years." In 1900, the year of the Boxer Rebellion, the foreign devils included everyone from Europe's great powers, the U.S. and Japan, all looking for their piece of the enormous fortune cookie. It is the Boxers, those Chinese Robin Hoods who thought their magic would protect them from Western bullets, who most excite Benson's imagination. By creating Norris Blake, a reporter for Joseph...
...Author Faust's particular talent: the humane handling of born losers whose illusions run away with them. He does too little with it, however. The book is a loose braiding of Benson's rearguard action against middle age with Blake's daring adventures during the Boxer Rebellion. "Fictionally oriented history" is what Benson calls his Blake novel. Like Faust's own Willy Remembers (1971), in which a 93-year-old veteran re-creates an addled version of the Spanish American War, Sid Benson tries to recapture a simpler, more dashing time...
...many left-wing organizations, particularly in Italy and West Germany, are still committed to disrupting society in the hope that police repression will create martyrs who will win public sympathy. But the new radicals have generally chosen what "Red Rudi" Dutschke, who led West Berlin's student rebellion in 1968 and is still active in the Movement, calls "the long march through the institutions." The archetype of the new, sober, methodical and coolly professional radical is Wolfgang Roth, 32, the ambitious, mod-haired leader of the openly Marxist Jusos (Young Socialists), who have virtually seized from within the left...
...says Dr. Donald Johnson, a Manhattan gynecologist. "That way I don't have to send a bottle of booze or something." Others are taking out policies to cover doctors' bills and demanding that those who treat them accept at least whatever the insurance companies allow. But their rebellion is not likely to spread very far. The majority of doctors seem more than willing to abide by the ancient advice of Hippocrates...
...does not, never did and never will exist," Kott concludes, pushing himself and his heroes against the wall, "if cruelty is the rule of the universe, one can confirm it even with one's own agony." What the tragic hero knows at last is that he is in rebellion against life itself-against the very terms of human mortality. No wonder the tragic hero became obsolete even in his own time, replaced as a heroic prototype by the crafty, adjustable Odysseus-a survivor who was excessive only at compromise, the perfect artist of the possible...