Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that word will not be primarily identified with the plain upon which ancient Athens nurtured philosophy and democracy. Nor will it simply stand for the bucolic little town that gave its name to a turreted prison, mislabeled a "correctional facility." Attica will evoke the bloodiest prison rebellion in U.S. history. It will take its place alongside Kent State, Jackson State, My Lai and other traumatic events that have shaken the American conscience and incited searing controversy over the application of force?and the pressures that provoke...
...white groups of radicals converged on Attica, demonstrating on behalf of the prisoners. Inside cell block D, inmates armed with baseball bats, claw hammers, clubs and tear-gas canisters kept close guard over their hostages. In the prison yard, with the cool intensity of guerrillas, leaders of the rebellion put forward demands as inmate typists recorded the dialogue between the negotiators...
...that Attica is neither the best nor the worst of New York State's prisons. In fact, its prisoners have been successful in winning some improvements in their conditions-leading some Attica townspeople to complain that the "permissiveness" of the prison management was to blame for the rebellion. Yet most of the few prisoner gains were made through courts to change the policies of prison officials. In 1966, a federal court ordered officials to formulate rules that would allow Black Muslims to practice their faith. Attica prisoners conducted a non-violent sitdown strike last year, protesting low workshop wages...
...message, if it can be called that, seems to be that the remedy for marital discord is a coupling in the linen closet, that rebellion is raising a ruckus at the country club, and that happiness is a discarded towel. As Turman and Scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Pretty Poison) go for the simple solution, they favor the easy laugh. "Relax, enjoy the air," Alren tells Lisa, and there is a quick cut to a truck spewing exhaust. There are, in addition, the usual number of shafts directed at high-priced psychiatrists, high-pressure businessmen and-everybody's favorite-middle...
...modern liberal mind, the word has an almost pornographic sound. But discipline is necessary to freedom . . . Though discipline and freedom seem antithetical, each without the other destroys itself. In painting, craft without imagination is sterile, and imagination without craft aborts its image ... In government, order without dissent stagnates, and rebellion without law makes chaos, and both are despotic...