Word: rebellion
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...difficult not to miss '69, however. For '69 meant bursting loose, breaking out of traditional sex roles, and finding a public voice. And that voice was yelling loud and brazen in raucous rebellion against all that 'femininity' had once connoted. The Feminist anger, for many, was the single most powerful emotion in their lives. It made them buoyant. Female strangers on the street went out of their way to give each other "everybody's a sister" smiles, and collective meetings warmed their faith with the feeling of an all female togetherness. Everybody's blood was running high in the temples...
...against the Look, and donned shapeless Indian prints that defied the Hollywood wasp-waisted ideal. They sat with legs widespread in mockery of Propriety and wore tattered jeans to taunt Ladylike Deportment. And they stopped shaving and stopped bathing to exult in the smells they trailed in the air. Rebellion against the Look was merely the easiest way to protest the Role, since the Look, be it slickfigured or heavy-breasted, was primed for seduction, for capitalizing on your assigned status as a sex object. It was this objecthood, having one's identity consigned to the status of an object...
...failure of the revolt could work in Allende's favor. Now that his advance warning about a right-wing rebellion has been substantiated, he could use fears of further coups as a pretext to clamp down on his enemies, who are both numerous and powerful. Allende has already extended the state of emergency to the entire country and, as a further show of his strength, invited supporters to stage mass demonstrations to celebrate "our victory...
...last year. He was an author of protean energies, focused on but not limited to poetry. He was himself very nearly as renowned as "Alan Severance, the nationally famous drinker," whom LIFE magazine photographs "holding forth to rapt pals in an Irish pub." Severance's polar positions are rebellion and awe. "Both seemed built in, he was ready to defend both to the death. You had to have both. He saw damned little of either in most Americans at the moment: just cop-out or sheephood, not independence or emulation. Hyperdemocracy, the sovereignty of the unqualified individual, added into...
...argument that cropped up in several quarters, in fact, held that there are no real enemies in America, only friendly adversaries. This assessment may hold when John Kenneth Galbraith and William F. Buckley get together and try to match vocabularies, but surely a decade of genocide overseas accompanied by rebellion and oppression at home indicates that someone is not playing the game by the rules of genteel civility...