Word: rebellion
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...most psychiatrists, the increase in marijuana smoking represents not so much a search for new thrills as the traditional, exhibitionistic rebellion of youngsters against adult authority. Parents who are quite agreeable to students' drinking almost always boggle at drugs. "There is not much that students can do that is defiant," says a Boston psychiatrist. "They think with some degree of glee about what their parents would think if they knew they were smoking marijuana." These students also are "looking for changes in personality," and "they lack communication and feel isolated-when they smoke there is a certain togetherness...
...wife meets the son, and so forth. As each permutation comes up and repeats, Gonçalo is even able to imagine himself as the toymaker, manipulating the others and despising them -until suddenly the friend's death and the son's rebellion bring the modern world about Gonçalo's ears in a tangle of broken springs and toothless gears...
...magazine which presumably hopes to appeal to a college audience, The Free Student's articles are intellectually disappointing and occasionally insulting to the intelligence of the reader. One piece titled "Repression and Rebellion at Brooklyn College" begins, "Students at Brooklyn College are about to rise up in mass protest against new dress regulations which forbid girls to wear slacks on campus at any time, and which forbid boys to wear dungarees...
...would be equally silly to say that we shouldn't show Sergei Einstein's Potempkin on the grounds that it idealiezs a Socialist rebellion," Mrs. Pratt added...
...reasons, the United States should welcome Soviet influence in North Viet Nam. First, unlike China, Russia favors a negotiated settlement of the war and is reluctant to spread the "peoples' rebellion" to neighboring Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. Eventually America will have to go to the conference table to end this war, and Russian intervention brings that table one step closer...