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...Baronny of Carolingia, a part of the Eastern Kingdom composed of students from Harvard, M. I. T. Wellesley, Smith, and Mt. Holyoke, recently held its first official gathering, a banquet and revel at Wellesley's Shakespeare Society House...
About forty students, the men wearing long capes and brandishing swords, the women dressed in long lace gowns, fought their way through a snowstorm to attend the revel. The revel consisted of medieval game playing, a banquet eaten in the medieval style, using knives but no forks or spoons, and singing and dancing after supper...
...Paris last week, Revel took note of what he terms the "breathing spell" in the U.S. "This is a period of stabilization," he said. "The radicals, the Weatherman, the Black Panthers have put water in their wine. They're not backtracking, but they now understand better what must be done if they're to be effective. They realize that extremism, pure violence, cuts them off from protesting youth." But the revolution, in Revel's terms, has not been defused. "The left's ideas of five or six years ago have been adopted and are now being digested by large sectors...
...privileged vanguard of the second world revolution? Because, says Revel, America has invented a new revolutionary method that other nations have been incapable of engendering on their own. That method is dissent, "a revolutionary judo without precedent," an "all-enveloping and erratic sedition" with which governments cannot cope. For the revolution to succeed, there must be widespread criticism...
...Revel sees it, the phenomenon has no relation to the familiar, violent historical event, which, as happened in Russia, merely exchanges one form of tyranny for another. He asserts that there has been only one world revolution, which he places in the second half of the 18th century with the advent of egalitarian societies. The second world revolution, he says, will have as its goal the establishment of "economic and social equality by and through cultural and personal liberty; the guarantee of security through the participation of all in the political decisions," and eventually the creation of a world government...