Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arresting Posters. The rebel cause got an unexpected boost when Kampf and two others were arrested for resisting removal of "radical" posters from the lobby entrance of Manhattan's Americana Hotel, where the three-day meeting was held during the holidays. By forcing the arrests, the hotel management fueled the suspicion of some dissidents that M.L.A. directors were colluding to repress them. After that, the business meeting offered them the opportunity to take over. Of 12,000 who registered for the meeting, only 800 appeared for the voting, and the dissidents had a majority on most issues...
Though he is in a sense a rebel against the old Times, Talese emphatically says that he is not trying to "get" the newspaper for any past grudges. "I was trained by the Times and when I left the paper I cried." He devoted nearly three years to the book not to even any scores but because "I consider the New York Times news. Fascinating news. It has been sitting in judgment of America for more than a century and it, too, should be looked at in detail with the same objectivity...
...proposes that in Roman eyes Jesus was a dangerous political rebel who was executed by Pilate on the charge of sedition...
...Gospels as a one-man assault on the profane money changers, quickly led to Jesus' denunciation by the high priests and then to his Roman trial. Far from dying ignominiously as a Jew rejected by his nation, Jesus in effect died a patriot's death, a rebel-martyr for his people...
Florence, the city where Girolamo Savonarola preached in defiance of a Renaissance Pope, Alexander VI, has another rebel priest on its hands. In fact, the name of Don Enzo Mazzi, 41, has already become known all over Italy as a symbol of the clerical protest that has broken out even in Roman Catholicism's own backyard...