Word: rebellion
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...different when they are ready to shoot you. We are still afraid to die, and most of us realize the absurdity of dying for something--it is useless if you are dead. To be a rebel, to be ready t die, writes Camus, is to realize that rebellion is its own reason for existing. It is not rebellion for something, but simply rebellion for its own sake, rebellion because man cannot be man without rebelling. Few of us are there, and few of us are even getting there. Harvard taught us to be afraid to die, anyway...
...Irish election, there can be no conservative swing-conservatism is a way of life. After the rebellion that brought independence from Britain in 1922, the Irish settled down to a succession of governments content to recall the heroics of the past rather than innovate or modernize. Last week's election was no exception, despite a strong bid for power by the Labor Party, which fielded a slate of intellectuals, most notably Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien. A onetime United Nations representative in the Congo, and most recently Albert Schweitzer Professor at New York University, O'Brien returned...
...January 1919, they got what they asked for: an uprising. The desperate Socialists, who had done their best to cooperate with the far left, turned to the far right for help. Remnants of the Kaiser's army, informally organized into Freikorps, marched into Berlin, ruthlessly smashing the rebellion and executing Spartacist leaders, including Luxemburg...
...wore stenciled red fists -a symbol of dissent popular with Boston area student activists-attached to their robes. At Pomona College, something of the spirit of '69 was summed up by the class poet, James E. Rosenberg, who instead of a speech read a passionate poem of societal rebellion, replete with phallic imagery and four-letter bravado...
...listeners a sympathetic, near-encyclopedic appraisal of the problems of the workingman. He quoted New Left Philosopher Herbert Marcuse, lamenting that technology was threatening to turn man into a creature of "one dimension," and warmly praised French Socialist Albert Thomas, who founded the ILO half a century ago. The rebellion of youth, said the Pontiff, "resounds like a signal of suffering and an appeal for justice" against a technological world that has no worthwhile place for them...