Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good fortune to be obsessed by a single idea. Readers of "Midsummer Night's Madness" will recall how the formally unrelated short stories in that book all elaborated a central theme; the change--usually a disintegrating change--wrought upon its characters by the stress of a hopeless political revolt. In "A Nest of Simple Folk" the pattern of a family chronicle extending in time from 1854 to 1906 is woven about a similar theme. By tracing the fortunes of three generations of Irish men and women, Mr. O'Faolain has been able to realize the implications of his subject...
...special merits, Pound has been an important force in Anglo-American literature. His innovations have been genuine improvements in the technique of poetry; by virtue of them, he has exerted a profound influence on several contemporary poets. He has managed somehow to be in the forefront of every revolt from tradition which has not been revolting in every sense of the word...
...never ruled that the federal government is powerless to prohibit child labor directly, as the present child labor law would prohibit it. Mr. Smith's parallel with the sumptuary Eighteenth amendment is an unfortunate one. The fact is that the eighteenth amendment was passed, and only a national revolt at its philosophy forced its repeal. The eighteenth amendment could not have been passed if its exponents had placed their hopes on the taxing power, or the interstate commerce clause. Behind the present child labor law a very simple strategy is visible; the example of the eighteenth amendment indicated that...
...government of his own in the wilderness, who ruled his men with an iron hand, who married to the music of gunfire, who rallied his followers to the cause of Nicaraguan independence, was more than a more jungle bandit--he was the personification of revolt against American imperialism. Death to sandino was but a moment of discomfort, not to be taken seriously. His all-consuming passion was liberty...
...students' telegram. Said Dean Wannamaker: "I like to see the students have some fun. They acted too hastily. They do not know exactly what they want now but they are earnest and sincere and something will grow out of it." Other university officials pooh-poohed the revolt, urged Durham newspapers to ignore it. But many a student and restive alumnus saw more to the affair than a youthful outburst, more to the rumored faculty unrest than the squabbles and jealousies which beset every university administration. Back of it all, they said, was the refusal of Trinity-Duke...