Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, of course, the fear of success, though understandable enough in a civilization like ours which worships that shifty goddess, is an ignoble fear, and can become ridiculous, as in the pronouncements of those who revolt against the age by reversing its values. We are doubtless a contemptible generation, but it is not true that whatever succeeds with us must be bad. Frost and Eliot and Faulkner and Joyce and Brecht and O'Neill are and were enormous successes--far more successful than the great of other generations have been in their lifetimes. And it is not inconceivable...
Analysis is moral in that it serves to make man "at home in the world," Fromm continued. But this is not at all the same thing as "adjustment," and analysis must deal with religious, philosophical, and political concerns. Psychoanalysis must help men revolt from a social order "which demands that they not be very human," Fromm insisted...
...famous "May 13" army-settler revolt in Algiers two years ago, sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, army commander in Algeria, was the first to cry "Vive De Gaulle" to the unruly crowd from his Algiers balcony. For months, Salan was grimly steadfast as De Gaulle went on to promise Algerians a referendum offering three choices, including independence. Two weeks ago, Salan had enough. "No one," he said defiantly, has a right "to decide to give up a portion of territory under French sovereignty, above all in Algeria." The colons and right-wing ultras of Algiers, hailed Salan as their...
...soon to proclaim an end to chaos. In secessionist Katanga, Baluba tribesmen rose in bloody revolt in the tin-mining town of Manono after police broke up a demonstration by tossing a hand grenade that killed two tribesmen. Anointed by a witch doctor with a potion that supposedly made them immune to bullets, the Balubas fearlessly charged a police barricade, hurling spears, shooting arrows, firing old muzzle-loaders filled with nuts and bolts. Police fire cut down 35 Balubas, while two police were killed...
...largest outside Red China. He is also committed to improving South Korea's troubled relations with Japan. But he has little chance of carrying his program through, unless South Korea can shake off the addiction to anarchy displayed by politicians and ordinary citizens alike since the revolt against Rhee. Pondering South Korea's paralysis, Seoul's Hankook Ilbo last week mused: "We cannot but worry about the future of the parliamentary system in this country...