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...Cleveland admitted paternity but won anyway, aided by the opposition's slur that Democrats were the party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." He was again the winner in 1892 against Benjamin Harrison...
Venerable prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. continue to encounter rebellion among younger priests. The latest to run up against a clerical revolt is Archbishop Robert E. Lucey, 77, of San Antonio. He faced the embarrassment of having 51 priests in his see publicly announcing that they had asked the Vatican to retire him or ask for his resignation...
Into the Stream. Violence-and university intransigence-were rejected by the special commission, under former U.S. Solicitor General Archibald Cox, that was appointed to investigate last spring's student rebellion at Columbia. Implicitly advising other school administrations on how to avoid such troubles, the Cox report contends that Columbia administrators had too often "conveyed an attitude of authoritarianism and invited distrust" of students and that the roots of unrest lay in a "deepseated dissatisfaction with Columbia life" among nonradical students and faculty. Cox concluded that "the survival of Columbia as a leading university depends upon finding ways of drawing...
...modest ambition of several groups of strolling players who consider themselves collectively to be proponents of "guerrilla theater," Performing on street corners or on flatbed trucks, earning their keep by pass-the-hat collections, these dramatic revolutionaries have but one purpose: to "radicalize" their audiences into action and rebellion, Recently, three of the best-known guerrilla organizations -the Mime Troupe, New York City's Bread and Puppet Theater and California's El Teatro Campesmo-gathered at San Francisco State College for a five-day "theatrical orgy" of radical plays...
Psychologically Unsuited? Clark's biggest handicap is that he prefers the sociological approach at a time when the nation seems to be demanding more use of the nightstick. At 40, he is something of an old-fashioned liberal in a time of increasing anxiety over the New Left rebellion. The son of former Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, Ramsey worked in the family's law firm in Dallas before beginning a Justice Department career in 1961. He and his wife still try to get together with the elder Clarks at least once a weekend, although the family rule...