Word: rebellions
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...righteous hypocrisy of his foes, with much of the impetus for this feeling of inadequacy-and likely Roth's own self doubt-stemming from a welcome maturity in both character and author. Where once Roth's protagonists enjoyed a vicarious thrill while rebelling against religious and social mores, the rebellion seems to have lost much of its childish force...
...Beat movement; which responded to the rampant conformity of the '50s. Everyone knows the Beats were rebellious: they drifted around the country in search of "kicks," abandoning all shreds of the traditional male role as husband, father and breadwinner. But how many people connect the Beat form of rebellion with the subsequent reclassification of "responsibility" as an unhealthy, even neurotic trait...
Ehrenreich builds a solid and innovative case for the primacy of the male rebellion, founding her scenario almost entirely on economic arguments. In her introduction, she explains why both sexes have been disadvantaged, even oppressed, by the traditional structure of the family as economic unit. It is economic factors, far more than psychological or biological ones, she argues, that have precipitated the rebellions of both sexes...
Playboy was not the voice of the sexual revolution, which began, at last overtly, in the 60s, but of the male rebellion, which had begun in the late 50s. The real message was not eroticism: but escape--literal escape, from the bondage of breadwinning...to male liberation...Sex's or Hefner's Pepsi-clean version of it--was there to legitimize what was truly subversive about Playboy. In every issue, every month, there was a Playmate to prove that a playboy didn't have to be a husband...
...popular game-viewing spot part of a jubilant five-day state visit to Kenya. The Queen remembered her first visit well enough to note changes, commenting on the loss of trees and inspecting the ruins of the original lodge, which was burned in 1954 during the Mau Mau rebellion. After her Kenya visit, the Queen and Prince Philip went on to India, where she visited the cremation site of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the leader of yet another independence struggle that led eventually to the end of British rule...