Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back together. "Again," he wrote his wife, "I have been called upon to save the country." In September 1862, Lee invaded the North for the first time, and-with sensational luck-McClellan's men came upon a copy of his orders, detailing the exact positions of the divided rebel army. "Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee," said McClellan, "I will be willing to go home." Though he might have defeated Lee once and for all at Antietam, the "young Napoleon" hovered near defeat himself, barely managing to check the invasion...
...thing to cry out for social justice; it is another to support a revolution that may be Communist-inspired and that would, if successful, seek to destroy organized Christianity as one of its first goals. In effect, the advocates of revolution would divide the church into a committed rebel sect, fanatically dedicated to the cause of change, and the vast majority of believers who cannot quite see that to be a Christian necessarily means to be a guerrilla. It is hard to reconcile that prospect with peace and good will...
...comprehensive statement of his new perspective in a three-part lecture series at Harvard on "The Secular Search for Religious Experience." In his first two talks, he dwelled on what he called the root problem of contemporary religion-the "immolation of history," or the tendency of modern man to rebel against his past. The rejection of history, Cox argued, not only throws out the good of tradition with the bad, but "can result in a corrosive contempt for the present." In his third lecture, entitled "Christ the Harlequin"-appropriately accompanied by psychedelic strobe lighting and calliope music-Cox suggested that...
...market? Start a magazine. In the first issue, smother the scene. Top off a piece on skydiving with one on motorcycling. Spend an afternoon with Warren Beatty, an evening with Timothy Leary. Run the confessions of a college dropout, along with a few essentials about "the good, grey rebel," Eugene McCarthy. Sprinkle in some pictures of electric dresses. And right in the middle of it all, plant one of those psychedelic fold-out posters. Crazy...
...suddenly you come to a situation where what you do or what you say is apparently important to someone else, and you must make the judgments. The rules are not there as to how you should behave or what you can rebel against. You suddenly become the adult instead of the one being taken care of, and you find it's not that easy. This enables you to take another look, to review your relationships with other people. And changes do occur without therapy, without any such thing--as a normal process of growth...