Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief "gripe," to use a genuine Illinois slang term, which the writer seems to find with the campus is that the "spirit of revolt" is entirely absent. Just what direction this revolt might take is not quite clear in the article but it is evident that Mr. Roberts was very much impressed by the stories of the old days when students were went to go out and tear down a college building or two before the dawn...
Other forms of revolt, such as protest against the no-car rule and compulsory military training, he finds to be mild, evidently because of the lack of mental alertness on the part of students. But in explaining the lack of protest against the unreasonableness of the 12:30 ruling, he appears a little illogical when he says that it may be due in part to the ingenuity with which ways of evading the rule are devised...
...justice. If the plans of the apiarist successfully culminate in more honey, it may not be of its pristine saccharinity, coming from discontented bees, and its lowered market value may be punishment enough to the owner. But if the bees grow class-conscious and revolt, making their presence felt as only bees can, let the apiarist stand not upon the order of his going. Retribution is swift and just, especially swift, when it is from...
...Empress Alexandra Feodorovna was variously accused of misguiding her royal spouse, of sympathizing traitorously with her Vaterland during the War, of antagonizing the Russian aristocracy, and terrorizing the peasantry-in short, of causing downfall to the Russian empire. That this one woman should be held responsible for the inevitable revolt against centuries of abuse is patently ridiculous. But she served as convenient symbol-though less charmingly than Marie Antoinette...
When the first volume of The Decline of the West appeared in Germany a few years ago, thousands of copies were sold. Cultivated European discourse quickly became Spengler-saturated. Spenglerism spurted from the pens of countless disciples. It was imperative to read Spengler, to sympathize or revolt. It still remains so. The second volume, treating of the kinship of _ plants, animals, men, parallels of law, cities & cultures, languages, religions, ethics & morals, stimulates further astonishment and elation. These are fruits of contact with perhaps the most colossal mind of our age, a mind which forces wondrous patterns on the chaos...