Word: rebellion
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...Points of Rebellion, Douglas...
...Liverpool turned the world upside down, the most visible pop singers have been those who have dealt with contemporary moods and issues. Simultaneously trend setters and chroniclers of an era, they sing of grass, alienation and oppression. The very names of those who have made it are slogans of rebellion: the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Wayne Newton . . . Wait a minute-Wayne Newton? Isn't he that big, baby-faced panda, that tenor with adenoidal arrest and the grin that seems to tell you he just made all-state halfback at Waycross High? Where did he come from...
...when Kennedy was elected, the new set of intellectuals that invaded the White House decided that bombing was a little too spectacular. What was needed, they decided, were specially-trained Marines who would be ready to make a quick trip to a rebellious land, get rid of the rebellion, set up a puppet government, and then return to defend the homeland. After all, hadn't the CIA coup in Guatemala worked just that...
...Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou (7) 10. Points of Rebellion, Douglas...
...thicket of heavy-legged furniture. At one moment of electric outrage, she turns her back to the audience, raises clenched fists to heaven like Antigone, then slowly lowers them to her neck, like just another housewife with just another nagging backache. In this magnificent little cycle of rebellion and surrender, Miss Worth defines her theme: trapped impotence...