Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Revolt. Whether the speculation was true or not, the immediate fact of life for Lyndon Johnson was that he does not have much time left for decisive action...
...better personify the tragic ironies of the Algerian revolt than burly, jovial Ahmed Boumendjel. A onetime Paris lawyer and councilor of the French Union, Boumendjel has hundreds of friends among French politicians and journalists, to whom he is affectionately known as "Boum." A latecomer to the rebel cause, he joined Algeria's Front de Liberation Nationale only after his younger brother died during "interrogation" by French paratroopers in Algiers in 1956. Presumably, his mission would serve incidentally to give Boumendjel a chance to see his French wife and two teen-age daughters, whom he left behind in Paris when...
Wrote Critic Mario Monteverdi in utter exasperation* at the Fautrier prize: "It is fitting that Fautrier should have won . . . for his are the ugliest, most vulgar, and useless non-paintings in the entire show. Giving him a prize clears the way for a legitimate revolt which, if clamorous enough, might save the Biennale...
...these days that most critics find it profitless trying to swim against the current. But last week at the 30th Venice Biennale. 400 painters and sculptors from 33 nations exhibited some 3,000 works whose overall impression was so weird that the experts, almost to a man, rose in revolt. "It is not the world of art.'' said Turin's outraged La Stampa, "but a world of impenetrable moors and silent, sterile landscapes." Added respected Critic Leonardo Borghese, writing in Milan's Carriere della Sera: "Ridiculous, sad, terrible. So abstract are all these works that they...
...finishing his last three courses at Boston University, may earn his B.D. degree from Vanderbilt by either transferring credits from Boston or by taking a written exam this summer. The school has already replaced Divinity School Dean J. Robert Nelson, whose initial resignation touched off a faculty revolt. But twelve other divinity-school faculty members who also resigned may withdraw their resignations and return without prejudice...