Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novels she proceeded to write constitute provisional and consummately artful answers to these questions. Sula (1973) examines the stormy friendship of two black women and the opposing imperatives to obey or to rebel against the mores of their beleaguered community. Song of Solomon (1977), her only novel with a male protagonist, proved a critical and commercial breakthrough for Morrison; the phantasmagoric saga of a black man in mystical pursuit of his past won the author rapturous praise and a greatly enlarged circle of readers...
...DEMOCRACY: Everybody's favorite Western-sounding word. The rebel legislators used it, but their aim was the antithesis of democracy -- to create a new form of dictatorship that would restore the authority and privileges they had lost. Yeltsin too has little claim to the term, particularly last week when he shut down newspapers, outlawed opposition parties and disbanded local legislatures...
...thrilled by the prospect of peace. The first free elections, held under U.N. auspices, were designed to end the war between the government of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, once backed by the Soviet Union and now recognized by the U.S., and Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the UNITA rebel movement. Savimbi refused to accept the government's 129-to-91-seat election victory and plunged Angola back into ferocious conflict that has so far claimed an additional 100,000 lives...
...Rebel without a Cause...
...still love to laugh at my Smithie classmates who are still called Mudge, Midge, Buffy, Muffy and Tooters. But actually I think I got a pretty good education at Smith. They were, when I think about it now, amazingly patient with me. I fancied myself a great intellectual rebel...