Word: rebellion
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...fear of sexuality; by reducing their body weight to childlike proportions, they stall the process of becoming a woman. (Menstruation almost invariably ceases, or in the case of younger girls does not begin after such severe weight loss.) Other therapists see the disease as a symbolic "oral rebellion" against overcontrolling and troubled parents...
...remote, how quaint the well-behaved Irish rebellion of Charles Stewart Parnell seems today, with its motto, "Home Rule," and its hope of working out a decent compromise through the parliamentary system. Yet how much more remote, how much more quaint must appear the Great Love that brought down Parnell and his cause-the ten-year affair he conducted with Katharine O'Shea, another Irishman's wife...
...Mahatma's colleague and political heir, Jawaharlal Nehru. She was only four years old when, in 1921, her father went to prison for the first time to protest British rule over the subcontinent, and she spent an intense, unhappy childhood prematurely immersed in the politics of rebellion. "I have no recollection of games, children's parties or playing with other children," she once said. "All my games were political ones-I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake...
...seems clear that some of the old values and restraints have been battered by recent upheavals?war, riots, assassinations, racial strife, situational ethics, the youth rebellion. As disillusionment sets in, fewer and fewer Americans look to the churches, schools or Washington for moral leadership. Stern observers of today's widespread ethical torpor tend to agree with the 19th century French criminologist Jean Lacassagne: "A society gets the criminals it deserves...
...colonial decades wore on. In 1760 the shrewd Benjamin Franklin (experienced in trying to bring colonies together) said that even if, in the "impossible" event of "grievous tyranny and oppression," a few colonies should somehow ever come together, "those colonies that did not join the rebellion, would join the mother country in suppressing it." As John Adams recalled, "the colonies had grown up under constitutions of government so different, there was so great a variety of religions, they were composed of so many different nations, their customs, manners and habits had so little resemblance, and their intercourse had been...