Word: rebellion
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...modern liberal mind, the word has an almost pornographic sound. But discipline is necessary to freedom . . . Though discipline and freedom seem antithetical, each without the other destroys itself. In painting, craft without imagination is sterile, and imagination without craft aborts its image ... In government, order without dissent stagnates, and rebellion without law makes chaos, and both are despotic...
...imply, would be fair enough. In a warning, perhaps unintended, to those who might rebel, he writes that "the privileged classes of the past were probably not much superior biologically to the downtrodden, which is why revolutions had a fair chance of success." Herrnstein's implication is clear: rebellion against the new intellectual elite would be more likely to fail...
...Rebellion springs from a psychological source as much as from a political stance. Yet an age that has generated millions of rebels has failed to produce anything like adequate discussion of their emotional motives. Now a shrewd novel by a member of the Old Left offers some home thoughts to the vociferous children...
...consulting-room thriller and develops the solution to a psychiatric puzzle: Why does a young Frenchwoman who says she is happily married keep flirting with an O.D. of Veronal? Her analyst suspects she has borrowed trouble from her husband, a French poet-novelist whose stock in trade is glamorous rebellion. Called in for consultation, the husband really wants to level, but beneath the lacquer of glory he can perceive only one small flaw in himself: "Despite the success of my books, I have no confidence." Through that tiny portal of awareness the analyst enters a hidden emotional hell...
...would get the lion's share of nearly $1,000,000 in grants to Chicago-area colleges. A good many people seem to agree with the view of Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson. "The genius of Dr. Hurst," says Jackson, "is his ability to turn the urge for rebellion into a quest for knowledge...