Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Totally invisible to laymen was the rebellion that glared out here & there from the walls. Called the "free method," it consisted of a minute variation in technique, which permitted a few brush strokes to show. Chief disciple of this revolt in an art which Samuel Pepys correctly called "painting in little" was able Rosina Cox Boardman with two landscapes. A Meadow swam with a bright liquid green, simple masses of purple hills. Barn in the Valley showed a dazzling vista in miniature. In each the stroke of the brush was faintly apparent to a sharp-focused...
Spark which touched off the long-smouldering revolt was a ruling week before by Dean William Hane Wannamaker. Because he had not been present to preside, he had voided the trial of a student offender by the students' Pan-Hellenic (interfraternity) Council. Next day the campus rumbled ominously. Just before midnight some 1,500 students clumped grimly into the university gymnasium, heard quiet, studious Joseph T. Shackford, president of the Student Council, urge them to be orderly but determined. Jack Dunlap, football captain-elect, announced that the rebels would take over next morning's assembly period to present...
...because it is an essentially clever move but simply because the French public realizes that the definite triumph of any one party will result in civil war or worse. No one faction in France was capable of taking advantage of the late disturbances in order to provoke a successful revolt against Republicanism; and it is extremely unlikely that they will be afforded a sufficient opportunity again. The crucial moment in France has passed and has left the opponents of the existing order honorless and covered with dust from their fast-stepping rivals...
...police have kept the crowd under control--but only with machine guns. If all this is necessary to cow a leaderless mob, what will happen when the rioters are directed by capable leaders who know what they want? If, then, in the next few days the revolt is given some directive force, France will he faced with an organized revolution...
Consequently, the Royalists have a fine chance to restore France's traditional government to her, providing they can control the course of the revolt--and their success will be mainly a question of the sort of leadership they are able to offer...