Word: rebellion
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...from Algeria. Most of them came from poor families in rural areas and most of them had been disowned or denounced by their families for rebelling against Islam. They had come to Algiers lonely and displaced and had found each other. In effect they were brought together by their rebellion against social conservatism and kept together through the reassertion of social conservatism...
...criticism, the depth of its need for some reference to human values, is indicated by the eagerness with which the critical establishment has embraced the work of Harold Bloom. Bloom appears to inject some authentic excitement into criticism--his poets are animated by powerful emotions of anxiety, love and rebellion, but directed exclusively toward other poets. In this baroque system, the task of the critic is to celebrate the Oedipal process through which a poet matures by distorting and misreading his predecessors. The result is T.S. Eliot stood upside-down--instead of the artist's effacing his personality through...
...semidocumentary drama about the internment of our Japanese citizenry during World War II. It gives a good general picture of how the internees turned a collection of ill-constructed barracks at Manzanar into something resembling a community, of the conflicts between those who counseled open rebellion against their absurd imprisonment and those who advised patience. The Spirit at Manzanar became a dignified resistance in which individuality was not sacrificed to the survivor's ethic. The story, in which a family called the Wakatsukis endures in a short span most of life's large experiences (birth, death, new love...
...hardly the South at all in many places. It is the vacuum at the end of the struggle, the Muzak and Foster Grants at the end of the assembly line. Jimmy Carter has perfectly simulated the essence of that Florida by treaclizing Wallace's deep fury, conducting a grinning rebellion...
...custody-from improper confinement in mental institutions to a divorced father's spiriting away of his children. Today all 50 U.S. states permit habeas corpus petitions (or their like), and so does federal law. But while the U.S. Constitution bars suspension of the privilege except "in cases of rebellion or invasion," it does not specify the kinds of claims that can or cannot be raised by a habeas petition. The body language is imprecise...