Word: rebellion
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...Rebellion among Harvard undergraduates has apparently been on the decline since the storming of University Hall in 1969. But many rebels without causes are still hidden within our very own houses. The newest fad in student resistance? Dorm-room pets. According to the Handbook for Students, “No student may keep an animal in a building owned or leased by the College.” But does the College really care? According to school rules, it is the House superintendent’s job to deal with rebel students and dorm pets. If the super is unsuccessful with...
However, that rebellion can push poets away from the school, as much as it can inspire them. Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Eliot, Robert Creeley and Charles Olsen were among the poets to leave Harvard before finishing a type of degree...
...chief of Israeli military intelligence and now a professor of international relations at the Hebrew University, has one of the clearer minds in the Middle East. He sits in his study at dusk, on Bar Kokhba, a street in Jerusalem named for the leader of a catastrophic Jewish rebellion against the Romans in A.D. 132, an uprising that left half a million Jews dead and the people of Israel scattered to the corners of the earth. Bar Kokhba is an important and ominous presence in Harkabi's mind. He has written a history of the revolt called The Bar Kokhba...
...because its immediate survival was at stake but as part of a larger design to alter the distributions of power in the region. The business of peacemaking fell into disrepair. Ultimately, last December, the Israelis' repressive hand in the occupied territories stirred the Palestinians to their current fury of rebellion. Last week what the Palestinians call the intifadeh (uprising) proceeded, and the peace process did not. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir returned home from a nine-day visit to the U.S., in which he had resisted the American proposal for an international peace conference. Shamir's supporters, including several thousand Jewish...
Anyone expecting a great national rebellion bringing millions of irascible Gauloise-puffing Gauls to the barricades in defiance of authority and good sense will have been disappointed: France's nearly 15 million smokers meekly complied with the Feb. 1 law obliging them to haul their (cigarette) butts outside if they want to light up, or risk a hefty fine should they continue smoking in enclosed spaces. In fact, that relatively docile compliance with a liberty-restricting measure represented as significant a revolution in French cultural attitudes as does the state's health-driven campaign against tobacco...