Word: rebellion
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...baby's undershirt from the 17th-century wardrobe of Henry Dunster. Harvard's first president: the diary of Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1832; a 1936 Crimson football uniform; and a 1970 T-shirt that says "Strike because your roommate was clubbed" and 16 other calls to rebellion have all landed this winter in a single Pusey Library display case...
...latest revelations generated pressure for Haughey to resign as Fianna Fail's leader last week. "The heat was so strong in there you could burn your hands on the flames," said one M.P. after a party meeting to discuss the scandal. But despite the growing rebellion in the ranks, Haughey has refused to quit. Said the Irish Times: "He is not to be dislodged by assaults that would shift normally tenacious men." In part, Haughey is able to hold on because of some old-fashioned political patronage. Says one Irish reporter: "Charlie has people everywhere. When the chips...
...well, or badly, the wheels of justice grind has long intrigued Staff Writer Kurt Andersen, who wrote this week's cover story on capital punishment. The son and grandson of lawyers, Andersen inherited an interest that he cultivated at Harvard by studying the history of rebellion. "Somehow," he says, "I am drawn to issues of crime and punishment. I seem to have a propensity for writing on death, disaster and dementia...
...bizarre rebellion ended as suddenly as it had begun. But when Lieut. Colonel Sigifredo Ochoa Pérez gave up his six-day mutiny against Salvadoran Minister of Defense General José Guillermo Garcia last week, the damage had been done. The incident highlighted what many analysts feel is a troubling obstacle to U.S. aims in the embattled Central American nation: a lack of discipline on the part of the Salvadoran military. All too often, its leaders seem to be more concerned with internal rivalries than with fighting left-wing guerrillas united under the banner of the Farabundo Mart...
There are two traditions of rebellion against racism in Black history, and they contain the origins of our two movements. One is a tradition of protest, which Martin Luther King took up. With this approach, one seeks to change some aspect of the society, but fundamentally the protestor accepts the basic framework of the social order and the first principles of the nation; in our case, with King, he reasserted, in fact, the principles and freedoms found in the American Constitution. King often spoke of a rededication to these ideals. He even saw civil disobedience as derived from the American...