Word: resentatives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Worth Rebuffing. What helped make young Americans apolitical in the first place, says Keniston. was the absence of a feudal aristocracy to resent and smash. During the rapid industrialization after the Civil War, for instance, the young could easily see themselves rising from rags to riches in a world that rewarded hard work, not rebellion. Now the "image of youth as an apprenticeship for upward mobility is waning," to be replaced by a self-centered style of behavior that Keniston calls "youth culture." It has many forms-the beatnik, the delinquent, the suburban adolescent-but all have in common...
Dormitory officers, who are required to enforce college rules, have had a particularly burdensome job, especially in those dormitories with large numbers of freshmen. "We greatly resent having to act as policemen this year," said one President, and Dean Elliott agreed that House committee members "have more responsibility than they can bear." She added that "there was a greater feeling of responsibility among students when they had double reporting...
Mack, a seven-term Congressman who had survived a G.O.P. gerrymander a decade ago, found his twelve new rural Illinois counties too much ground to cover, lost to freshman Republican Paul Findley. West Virginians seemed to resent all the outside help received by Bailey, an eight-termer, including stumping by Kennedy and Truman. They rallied behind underdog Arch Moore Jr., 39, to give him a 32,000-vote victory despite a 51,000 Democratic registration edge. Santangelo's East Harlem district was knocked out by the legislature, and he never had much chance of dislodging five-term Republican Paul...
...especially resent the attempt to link me with the old, corrupt ways," McCann said. "I'm hardly old enough to be involved with those days...
Every sign seemed to point toward success, but Director Ducreux had apparently forgotten that Marseille audiences are a strange breed. Fiercely proud of their opera house, they resent outside interference; they doubt any operatic judgment but their own. A Marseille fisherman or barber may buy a third-balcony seat, show up for his favorite aria and leave immediately, either exalted or enraged. Director Ducreux might have anticipated trouble because of his new, untraditional production, his largely imported cast, or the presence of a socialite audience flown in for the occasion by chartered plane from Paris...