Word: rebellion
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Reetchie is a God who only gradually reveals himself. The play is of course loaded with religious references, most of which say little. The seriousness is at times relieved--Reetchie says to Endikin who in a moment of rebellion is standing on him. The stench of your foot is asphyxiating my metaphysics...
...take this article on college youth," Roger added. "See this interview with a girl who went to a college that kept its own abortionist? And see, they've got a girl to answer her. 'I really feel sorry for these people... They're just using the rebellion bit as a rationalization for their own inability to cope with society or the pressures of academic life.' That's pretty hot stuff. You guys just don't know what you're missing in college...
...characteristically European pessimism when it reached these shores, but instead sparked the effort to recover a lost state of bliss, a pre-adolescent Eden that had never felt the dead hand of patriarchal restraint. What developed instead of a sense of cosmic fatalism (and its consequent strain of apocalyptic rebellion, one supposes) was an exaggerated respect for social manipulation, a penchant for forcing youth and growth into accepted social channels. Addams, Ben Lindsey, E. A. Ross, and John Wewey looked forward to conditioning the individual mind to a degree that far surpassed the plans for their European counterparts...
...Revolution-the witch doctor in tiger skins," wrote a Polish poet in praise of the Congo rebellion. In fact, Red witchcraft is doing poorly in Africa. The only African country under outright Communist domination is the former colony of Congo-Brazzaville. Through hamhanded diplomacy and sloppy technology, the Russians alienated two of their likeliest converts, Guinea's Sekou Toure and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. China, usually more subtle in its subversive techniques, has also managed to stomp on African toes. Peking's men in Burundi were thrown out early this year after a Chinese subversion campaign that...
...option of paying higher fines or going to jail for longer terms. Among those refusing probation was Free Speech Movement Leader Mario Savio, who haughtily told the court that he could not observe the ban because "with American politics presently in the hands of the morally and intellectually bankrupt, rebellion is a positive duty." Crittenden promptly gave Savio 120 days in jail...