Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of the questionnaire is to help the Biology Department decide what to do," Wilgus said, "not to start a revolt...
OBSOLETE COMMUNISM: THE LEFT-WING ALTERNATIVE, by Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit. One of the leaders of the near-revolution that shook France during the fateful "days of May" last year joins forces with his brother to examine the student-worker revolt; the authors wind up their absorbing chronicle by blaming the revolt's last-minute failure on the Communist Party, French trade unions and the left-wing establishment...
...specific statute. Rather, he denies the very authority and claim to validity of present democratic legal processes. He feels that his rights will be protected only if there is a fundamental change in the societal legal order. He has passed the stage of legal protest into the sphere of revolt. The Jew, his former ally, can not and will not make such a transition and is therefore abused as a faithless lover. The militant black, on the other hand, is now viewed by the Jew as a serious threat to the hard-earned safeguards of American democracy...
...UNWITTING alliance between Mumford and student radicals seems particularly unlikely, but fits into the pattern of Mumford's blend of eras. Mumford, the crusty scholar born in 1895, considers it a stroke of luck that he waited until the student revolt had matured to start writing his twenty-fourth volume, the second part of The Myth of the Machine (the first part appeared last year). "I'm entirely sympathetic with the students," he says bluntly. "Everything they're asking is long over...
Mumford considers the McCarthy movement and the revolt in the Universities proofs of his hypotheses and signs of hope. The first, he feels, was an effort to recapture for human beings a system that has become increasingly inward-looking--taking orders from its computers and social scientists instead of its subjects. The University upheaval he sees as a healthy effort to restore the University to its rightful place as detached critic of the system instead of participant in its oppression of human life. "Everytime a professor goes to the Pentagon he is binding the University that much closer...