Word: rebellion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this generation, we must aknowledge that the Harvard students who took up arms against the United States during the Civil War, whatever else they may have been, were soldiers for the forces of slavery and rebellion. Perhaps the recent controversy will serve to remind us of this often sugarcoated truth of our nation's most traumatic war. Perhaps we will come away from this debate with an enhanced understanding of what the Civil War means to each of us. Finally, perhaps we will learn to appreciate even more Daniel Webster's declaration in his Second Reply to Hayne. "Liberty...
...Union Army, and we have never forgotten that. My grandmother was born in 1863, the year of the Emancipation, in Richmond, Virginia: when she came north to join her northern relative who had long been free she always referred to the Civil War as the "War of the Rebellion;" and she bore no sentimental brief for Robert E. Lee or for his kind. Eventually she settled here in Cambridge with her husband a local clergyman, and doubtless she walked within the shadows of Memorial Hall, perhaps taking the time from its clock tower. She knew that that building, then...
...dead did not begin with the current renovations of Memorial Hall, and in fact such a proposal was anticipated by the original of the Hall. Dedicated to "the graduates and students of the University who died in defense of the Union, or who served in its defense during the Rebellion of 1861," the deed of gift included the stipulation that "no picture, bust, tablet, monument, or memorial shall be allowed within said Hall inconsistent with its intent." So it was until Edgar H. Wells, editor of The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, raised the issue in an editorial in the Bulletin...
...Morrisroe never fully accounts for the troubling lapse between art and life, where Mapplethorpe's association with the dark forces seemed to go well beyond mere aesthetic fascination or adolescent rebellion. In one of the book's most disturbing passages, Morrisroe discusses Mapplethorpe's almost pathological hatred of black men, who were ironically, some of his favorite subjects to photograph. Bragging that he could always "catch a nigger with coke," he made a routine practice of picking them up in bars, even after discovering that he was HIV positive...
...rebellion very nearly brought him down. In 1990 Gingrich held on to his seat by fewer than 1,000 votes out of 156,000 cast, after his opponent charged that he was more interested in playing God than in seeing to the care and feeding of his constituents. That brush with political death, it turns out, has produced an even more harrowing one. Some of the charges that are now ruining his holiday stem from that tight race. GOPAC was permitted by law to help only candidates for state and local offices, but documents filed by the Federal Election Commission...