Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boyg; he "doesn't strike" and prefers to "get all he wishes by gentleness." Ibsen's folk hero Peer is softly enveloped and nearly driven mad. "Oh, for claws and teeth that would tear my flesh!" Peer shouts like an overpaternalized student rebel. "I must see a drop of my own blood flow...
...absolutely necessary that rebellion find its reasons within itself, since it cannot find them elsewhere." --Camus, The Rebel...
...back (as North Korea vs. the U.S.). The possibilities of willful action (as opposed to violence) in contemporary America are fantastic. This is very didactic, I know, but it puts "why" in its proper place. Action is its own reason for existing. Rebellion can only be understood by a rebel, who knows that the only "reason" for rebellion is the pleasure (or whatever feeling) of rebellion itself. Revolution for the hell of it, because there is no other reason big enough for rebellion. Now, right here, in this country, no matter how big and ugly the cops are, the possibilities...
...suburbia. How it should so use those skills is an open question, but if radicals seriously hope to change society, destroying universities is sheer lunacy. The trouble is, of course, that their goal is less reform than romance?coming alive in action. At the Sorbonne last year, one rebel happily chalked on a wall: "The more I make revolution, the more I make love, the more I make love, the more I make revolution...
Where to Meet? Ojukwu's government announced that the "people of Biafra look forward with interest to a visit by the British Prime Minister." Yet a meeting between the two leaders is complicated. Wilson can scarcely visit Ojukwu in Biafra and thereby award tacit British recognition to the rebel government. Ojukwu is unlikely to accept alternative talks aboard a British warship such as Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith held last year...