Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stravinsky has built it from common raw materials--the same square meters and phrases which Ravel has used and only slightly modified. But Stravinsky has fractured them into suggestive fragments and then has rewelded them into eccentric patterns that are almost frightening (even to performers) in their ability to resist predictability...
...affluence is overwhelming natural decay-the vital process that balances life in the natural world. All living things produce toxic wastes, including their own corpses. But whereas nature efficiently decays-and thus reuses-the wastes of other creatures, man alone produces huge quantities of synthetic materials that almost totally resist natural decay. And more and more such waste is poisonous to man's fellow creatures, to say nothing of himself...
...doors, while others broke in through underground tunnels. At Fayerweather Hall, where protesters had preplanned every act by majority vote, students who intended to submit cleanly to arrest lined up at the door; those who preferred to be dragged out sat on an upper floor; those who decided to resist linked arms on another floor. The neat plans went awry as police kicked and clubbed their way through the building. For no clear reason, they even attacked newsmen, including a LIFE photographer and, of all people, Columnist Walter Winchell...
Labels are all-important. They dominate the political scene like political posters dominate many of Bellochio's shots. Who can resist ideological semantics which produce groups like the New Socialist Left Center Coalition Party...
...Buffalo, N. Y., draft board is the same one that has reclassified Michael K. Ferber 1-A. Ferber, a second-year graduate student here in English, is also under federal indictment for counselling others to resist the draft at the Oct. 16 protest...